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It is the busiest time of the year (Veritas Academy opens on Tuesday), but I can not help answering this interesting article. I think that it says a lot good and positive, but there are some ... Read More

Here is an interesting post by Peter Leithart on how college life has been shaped by monastics life. Maybe we should look at colleges and universities as monasteries gone to seed in a bad way. The ... Read More

Here is an interesting story about Chinese "Communism" and how it changed and became more capitalist. The results are telling. Private property makes the incentive to work, to be frugal, to save, ... Read More

Yesterday was the worst day of the year for me to read the paper. Every year the paper has a big back to school story. It tells what every school district is doing new this year. Here is the story ... Read More

We are just at the beginning of the race for the White House and already fatigue is setting in for me. The reason for this fatigue is simple: I don't see real leadership happening anywhere at the ... Read More

I was away last week, but I returned to find this story on my desk:

I was very distressed by the recent National Review Article in which John J. Miller interviews Wendell Berry. This is not odd (I am often distressed), but it is odd that I am distressed by Berry. ... Read More

This is an ongoing education discussion on an online group. The question that I am trying to answer is what caused the problems in education today the schools or the culture? This website is also ... Read More

An equivocation is when a term is being used differently by two people (or even by one person). This leads, often, to misunderstanding or bad arguments and decisions. Equivocations can be helpful ... Read More

The signs of systemic collapse in education are becoming more numerous. Here is the big news at present: