What Is the Most Important Thing in Your Learning?
The most important questions are perennial; they are asked again and again, in every generation, in every century. Who are we? Why are we? What will we do with our lives? And for students, “What are you studying, and why?”
What to Do with News
Written by Prof. Jeffrey Bilbro, Grove City College | (Source) Learning Wisdom at Walden Pond Perhaps you’ve found yourself in a conversation where someone expresses surprise — and a hint of judgment — that you were not aware of a recent item of news. In our...
An Old (New?) Option to Institutional Education
By Joel Salatin | (Source) SCHOOL OPTIONS Yesterday I spent a delightful afternoon with the chief architects of a proposed Anglican sponsored all-boys boarding farm school about half an hour from our farm. We spent the afternoon looking at the 260-acre property on...
What Abigail Shrier Told the Students at Princeton
I was so honored tonight to be hosted by the Princeton Tory, the Witherspoon Institute and the Tikvah Fund. The undergraduates I met tonight were clear sighted and brilliant and astonishingly well read. There’s so much on their shoulders. Here was my message to them.
My Name is Negar, and This Is My UNC-Greensboro Story
Negar Jadidi, who is a YAF campus leader, tells her family’s courageous story which serves as an inspiration for all of us to preserve America as a beacon of hope. With rising leaders like…
Why Atheists Need Faith
Atheism’s central conceit is that it is a worldview grounded in logic and scientific evidence. That it has nothing to do with faith, which it associates with weakness. In reality, faith is central to atheism, logic and even science…
Collectivism and Violence are One
By Cobin K. Barthold | “The main idea of the novel is to portray a positively beautiful man,” Dostoevsky wrote to his niece, in an 1868 letter, of what would become The Idiot. “There is nothing more difficult in the world,” he continued, “and especially now.” By “positively beautiful man” Dostoevsky meant an infinitely humble, compassionate Christian man….
Vaccine Resistance and Public Trust
By Christopher Roach | During the rise and fall of the coronavirus last year, vaccines appeared more quickly than expected. Trump’s Operation Warp Speed deserved much of the credit, even though the media was reluctant to give it. Thereafter, the vaccines were rolled out aggressively. Older, more vulnerable people were first in line. Thereafter, virus incidence declined, but this result was coterminous with the seasonal rise…
The Founding Elite vs. The Current Elite
By Thaddeus G. McCotter | In recognizing and celebrating the signatories’ [of the Declaration of Independence] fortitude, Zanotti illuminated the stark contrast between the visions of America’s founding elite and its current elite. Without a doubt, the founding generation’s leading figures were from the colonies’ elite. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and their fellow preeminent revolutionaries were wealthy and celebrated…