A Classical School’s Guide to Senior Thesis Research, Part 2: How to Leverage The Power of Google

This article forms part of an ongoing series aimed to equip students at classical schools with the skills needed to research for their senior thesis. To read the introduction to the series…

A Classical School’s Guide to Senior Thesis Research, Part 1: How to Find Information Online

This article forms part of an ongoing series aimed to equip students at classical schools with the skills needed to research for their senior thesis. To read the introduction to the series…

A Classical School’s Guide to Senior Thesis Research, Introduction: Classical Education and Information Literacy

This article is the introduction to an ongoing series aimed to equip students at classical schools with the skills needed to research for their senior thesis. To get links to the entire…

Plato’s Cave, Education, and the Desire for God

From “Virtue and Classical Education“:   Education should thus serve the dual purpose of cultivating dispositions attuned to what is good, true and beautiful in this world, while also cultivating a sense…

Rediscovering the Power of Resurrection for a Time of Implicit Gnosticism

In a previous article, I shared my early assumption that resurrection was a short-hand way of referring to the immortality of the soul. Whatever heaven might involve, it never occurred to me…

Josef Pieper and the Lost art of Leisure

Everyone is aware of the obstacles that have arisen from public life grinding to a standstill in the wake of COVID-19. It is sometimes more difficult to be aware of the opportunities…

Progressivism and the Loss of Common Reason

From Gerald Russell’s “Beauty Is At the Heart of True Conservatism“: Progressivism has lost the notion of a common reason to which people of differing faiths could consent, even of the possibility…

“White people to the back immediately”

From The American Conservative yesterday: I ran into this Clubhouse discussion on Twitter and it crystallized for me the end point of CRT and Wokeism. Perhaps you have seen it already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YyCj5UaG1kI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2-Lb57Docit2hzHNYtbKq8KlZc4lGFtiAADgeeYB5TYQoLarMWwG5lKk8…

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Peter Scazzero was a megachurch pastor in New York and seemed to be a model of spiritual leadership and maturity. The problem is that he was emotionally immature, with deep-seated issues from…

What the Super Bowl Halftime Show Really Taught us

Referring to the much-discussed half-time show that took place at the Super Bowl earlier this month, Hannah Yasharoff asked an intriguing question at USA today: “In a #MeToo era, is a show…

The Joy of Reading

It’s been a long time since I’ve been with my friends the water-rat, the mole, the toad, and the badger. Last week I decided to enter into their world again with Kenneth…

Cultural Formation and Conservative Values

In the age of Trump and an increasingly Neomarxist Republican Party, it can be helpful to pause and remind ourselves what it means to be conservative. Catholic poet and philosopher, James Matthew…



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