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Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read
- Education, Family, Featured, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 13, 2025
Before becoming the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth wrote half-a-dozen books. The only one that didn’t deal with military affairs and American warriors was his 2023 “Battle for the American Mind,” in which Hegseth and co-writer David Goodwin addressed the failures of American education. It discussed the century-long progressive movement that nearly buried classical
READ MOREIn the weeks since Charlie Kirk’s death, many have been appalled at the treatment his life received at the hands of public figures and private individuals – many of whom are the teachers, doctors, and other average people who populate our lives. How can such people, we wonder, treat an apparently innocent man in such
READ MORE“Find a woman, marry her, provide, have more kids than you can afford. That’s my advice for young men. Don’t play the victim. Even though you legitimately can play the victim card on everything we’ve said, the mindset of a victim is parasitic to your soul.” This was the surprisingly controversial advice of slain political
READ MOREKyrie, eleison, I sang with my choir as I glanced down at my phone to see the news that Charlie Kirk had died from the gunshot to his neck. Lord, have mercy. Within seconds, I heard his name whispered from across the room as the news reached my choirmates. The internet flooded with reactions to
READ MOREIn “The Soul of Civility,” Alexandra Hudson makes a sharp distinction between civility and politeness. Politeness and manners are the form, the technique, of an act, but civility is more. … Instead of focusing on the form alone, civility gets to the motivation of an act. Civility is a disposition that recognizes and respects the common humanity, the fundamental personhood, and
READ MOREBeauty and history flooded over me like the sunlight as I strolled through the slim, winding streets of a Tuscan town. I was submerged in an environment rich with sensory delight – from the medieval and Renaissance architecture rising on all sides, to the lilting sound of a street musician’s accordion, to the smell of
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