Veritas Blog

As I scanned the paper today it seems that we are finishing off the year with a bang culturally. I always forget that this is the time of the year when nefarious and terrible ideas come out to ... Read More

Recently, the Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia was taking questions from a group of students at Princeton. Some of the students had read Scalia's writing (which would typically be a good ... Read More

Today, the state of Pennsylvania schools are applying for relief from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Here is the article:

So, if you were wondering about the election and its meaning, a story in the paper might have been a smack in the face. Here comes Obamacare:

Some of you might be keeping track of the economic trouble in Harrisburg, PA. It is something like a Shakespearean tragedy. The city is more than $300 million in debt. Why? Because of an ... Read More

In Brian Douglas' fine article in First Thing on temptations facing classical Christian education, he outlines dangers facing schools like Veritas. The first one (see part 2) is on adopting ... Read More

I still hope to read a few more books this summer, but I think I might have found the most impacting: Denis de Roguemont’s Love In the Western World.

Yesterday's paper had one of those stories that should make us smile (were it not so sad). The story outlines the future of Lancaster County. Guess what: it could be very rosy. Guess what it will ... Read More

No wait I misread all the stories. I mean Cyber school. Recently, the Lancaster papers ran a number of stories on the Cyber schooling movement. Not all of them were negative, but I would say that ... Read More

Recently, the Lancaster paper has covered a little tempest in the Eastern Lancaster County School District (Elanco). (For full disclosure, I am a friend of and have a lot of respect for the Elanco ... Read More