by Prof. Jack | Jan 3, 2022 | History and Tradition
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...
by Publius | Sep 15, 2021 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Cobin K. Barthold | (Source) “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...
by Publius | Jul 28, 2021 | Family, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Dwight Lindley | (Source) As recent studies have shown, and numerous anecdotal accounts confirm, the mainstream English department is in declining health, and unsure of how to help itself get better. Many previous commentators have laid bare the structural sins of...
by Publius | May 26, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Alex Sosler | (Source) For what purpose is our suffering? If this year of COVID has accomplished anything, it’s forced me to slow down. If you can remember back to those beginning months, there was one long pause from our collective work-a-day world. What do I do...
by Publius | Apr 21, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Wenyuan Wu | (Source) I spent my early years believing in a euphonious lie that modern China was beautifully multicultural, with all its 56 ethnic groups living as one family in utter adoration of the motherland. This patriotic belief, consolidated through years...
by Publius | Mar 17, 2021 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Bryan Kerns | (Source) Teaching Augustine on a college campus is an especially interesting experience these days. I get to expose students to Augustine, his life, world, thought, assumptions, and influence, which is reward enough, but I also get to watch them...
