by Publius | Sep 8, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Christopher Roach | (Source) 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...
by Publius | Sep 1, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Thaddeus G. McCotter | (Source) In an insightful Independence Day Twitter thread, Emily Zanotti expressed her partiality for this provision of the Declaration of Independence: [T]his is my favorite part: ‘And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm...
by Publius | Aug 25, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Jeremy Adams | (Source) “Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude.” – David Hume When I was a boy, my father’s favorite day of the school year was not the last day, but the day before his students...
by Publius | Jul 21, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Joseph Woodard | (Source) With typical ashen-gray melancholy, the old dean of St. John’s College once warned about the Great Books seminar: “You have to let a thousand golden moments just pass by… a thousand brilliant insights slip away…” Back then, I thought he...
by Publius | Jun 23, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Douglas Blair | (Source) In a social engineering move that seems straight out of the pages of George Orwell, Google recently introduced an update to its Google Docs platform that encourages users to use more “inclusive” language. Inclusive language advocates...
by Publius | May 5, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Anna Agresti | (Source) In her Advanced Placement government and politics class, a high school student named Anna was assigned to read a New York Times commentary that called the U.S. Constitution “imbecilic.” Many of her peers agreed with this conclusion based on...