I wanted to draw my readers’ attention to the following offerings, currently available for free at my Substack newsletter, previously known as “The Epimethean.” Putting the Wildness Back into Classical Education:…
During the last few weeks, I have been teaching about the Cold War at the local community college, and this has prompted me to reflect on ways I was impacted by the…
I am pleased to announce that St. Vladimir Seminary Press just released Into the Light: Classical Education and Orthodox Christianity. This anthology, exploring issues at the intersection of Eastern Orthodoxy and classical…
In Wounded by Love, we read how the remarkable 20th century mystic and miracle-worker, St. Porphyrios, warned against certain pitfalls that over-zealous Christians often fall into and which deflect focus away from Christ.…
I am currently reading Yeonmi Park’s memoir about her escape from North Korea, the prison state where all literature is carefully censored and curated to align with government propaganda. When, after escaping…
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I recently recorded some videos about American history which I put on my YouTube channel. Yes, I have a YouTube channel, though I don’t talk about it much since that is not…
On May 21, 2023, the crowd of tourists at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris France witnessed a brutal sight: an elderly man went up to the altar and shot himself in…
OCAMPR, Touchstone, Why Digital Addiction is Worse Than You Thought, and Whether Christendom is Good
There is much to reflect on, coming back from my 10-day trip. Everyone can’t stop talking about the Touchstone conference, which seemed to bring to the forefront a question that numerous public…
This week I’m off to the Touchstone Conference, “Great & Wonderful Days Recovering the Christian Life in a Post-Christian Age,” while the following week I’m headed to the OCAMPR conference, “The Passions: The…
When I lived in England, everyone loved and talked about the music of Edward Elgar (1857-1934). Elgar is right up there with George Frideric Handel among the island’s musical luminaries (and we…
From my recent Substack article, “Unplugged From Reality: How The Forces that Radicalized Tyler Robinson May Be Closer to Home Than You Think“: Ironically, conservative parents who would never think to pay…
