White Kids Can’t Read Either
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- May 6, 2022
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The Classics Are for Everyone, Not Just Old, Dead, White Men4
- Education, History, Literature, Western Civilization
- October 7, 2022
Yes, yes, and yes!
That was what I shouted, in the silence of my heart, when I finished Louis Markos’ online review “How Classical Education Can Liberate Black America.”
Earlier that same week, I’d read yet another account of an …
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Finding a Great Getaway From Our Crazy Time12
- Culture, Education, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 15, 2022
“You have to be always drunk,” wrote the French poet Charles Baudelaire. “That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to …
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Good Reading Is the Cure for Gullibility3
- Culture, Education, Family, Literature
- August 22, 2022
The other day, a friend of mine posted on social media a picture of her three children, sitting in the living room, each with a nose in a book. She was having a proud-mom moment, noting that she couldn’t believe …
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The Real War of Our Time Is Humans vs. ‘Humanity’2
- Culture, History, Literature
- August 19, 2022
These days, a diverse crowd of activists, comprised of some of the world’s wealthiest elites down to college kids, see themselves as saviors blessed with the omniscience to rescue humanity from its grievous faults and sins.
To fight “global warming,” …
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Woke Silliness at Its Worst: A Non-binary Joan of Arc1
- Culture, Entertainment, History, International, Literature
- August 17, 2022
A new play about Joan of Arc, I, Joan, opens in London next week. After all the plays, poetry, novels, and biographies published since she was burned at the stake in 1431, it’s difficult to imagine that anything fresh …
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A Man Without a Country? … Not Quite Yet6
- Culture, Literature, Western Civilization
- August 11, 2022
In January 1978, Kris and I were married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—admittedly not the most propitious time weather-wise for a wedding. We’d saved our money, enabling us to honeymoon in Europe, spending a month with a friend in Switzerland and then …
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White Kids Can’t Read Either
- Education, Culture, Family, Literature
- May 6, 2022
Why Fairy Tales Aren’t Just for Kids
- Culture, Literature
- November 29, 2022
Finding a Great Getaway From Our Crazy Time
- Culture, Education, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 15, 2022
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