Veritas Blog

A classical education focus on the skill of rhetoric. Why? Because ideas are powerful and they are communicated from one mind to another by words. Good words draw people together and adorn the ... Read More

I am a big fan of Rene Girard (The Scapegoat, I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning, Deceit Desire and the Novel, etc.,). I have not been a fan of the recent Batman films, but this take on ... Read More

If you are looking for an interesting and obscure read, try John Buchan's The Dancing Floor. You spend about a third of the book thinking that you are heading into some late Victorian ... Read More

Michael Geer's piece which was the focus of "We Are?" Part 2 has been bouncing around my mind. The cultural ... Read More

Today is a sad day in Central Pennsylvania...a very sad day. Yesterday, the shock waves started to rumble out of State College. The worst fears of many of us seemed to be confirmed (I say seemed ... Read More

I was thinking about this today as I was driving around (the time between meetings). I think that classical Christian education and the culture that it supports are committed to crossing Kant's ... Read More

A few days ago the editorial writer David Brooks wrote an interesting column on how our schools discourage the masculine virtues. Here is the article:

An AP story today announced that Republican teachers in the NEA are feeling a little left out. (Could this be news?) Here is the story that I saw in the Lancaster papers:

Her is an interesting article by Robert Duffett on the importance of a classical (or liberal arts education). Democracy hangs in the balance as we, as a culture, make or fail to make this type of ... Read More

This is a quick superb note on how the Bible can be truly useful in the lives of believers from Peter Leithart: