Thursday, August 30, 2018

The #CatholicChurch #priest abuse scandal is not primarily about #pedophilia or clericalism, says Phoenix priest

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"The secular world which promotes homosexuality as a positive good had no choice but to spin the sex abuse scandal as predominantly a p...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Scientific Hubris: Why #Science Can't Answer All the Big Questions

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Big Think has printed another of a class of essays, written by scientists, common these days, announcing in triumphant tones all the th...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Do you use too many exclamation marks? Stop it!!!

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My newest post at Exordium : In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal , Katherine Bindley writes of the debate over whether exclamation marks ar...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

What #Putin is Doing and what the West is Not Doing At All

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My newest post at Intellectual Takeout : This weekend's Wall Street Journal featured an interesting article about Hungary, a former...
Monday, August 13, 2018

#Science 's Useful Fallacy

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My article in the most recent Classical Teacher magazine: The expression “the science is settled” has been invoked as a way to end nume...
Monday, August 06, 2018

Three Classical Terms

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My article in the most recent issue of the Classical Teacher magazine: I have given many speeches and written many articles on the sub...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Wynton Marsalis: Hip-hop "is more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee"

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Where are the demonstrations? Where are the grandstanding politicians? Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis didn’t hold back during a new interview...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Is the #Bible one of the 21 most overrated #books ever?

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A new article in GQ lists the "21 most overrated books ever." Of the 21 books GQ lists that aren't worth reading, one of...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

I will be speaking at the CiRCE Institute's liberal arts conference in Louisville May 18-19

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I will be speaking at the CiRCE Institute's regional conference in Louisville on the liberal arts on May 18-19, along with Chris Per...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Classical Education is More than a Method: The Secondary Place of Dorothy Sayer's Trivium

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My article in the newest Classical Teacher is now up at the Memoria Press website: " Classical Education is More than a Method: Th...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

This Just In From the Cultural Authorities: "Civilization" a Bad Word

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A new update of Kenneth Clark's famous "Civilization" mini-series turns Clark upside down. Kenneth Clark's "Ci...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

The Villa of the Papyri

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The following is my Letter from the Editor in the spring, 2018 issue of The Classical Teacher : In 79 A.D., the catastrophic eruption ...