One Eternal Day

Carlos Carvalho is President of the University of Austin , a very young institution admitting its first class in 2024. It is tuition-free, ...

Challies , quoting from Brett McCracken's The Wisdom of Sleep : As we lie down to sleep, we give our mental anxieties and physical exhau...

From another essay in  The Free Press series, "Things Worth Remembering." I do remember a time when my parents didn't really ...

From the author of Therapy Nation , who is himself a psychotherapist: Too much of modern therapy culture keeps people stuck, reinforcing gri...

Gene Autry's "Cowboy Code" for his young fans: The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage...

This reminded me of the argument that optimists are often disappointed while pessimists may be happily surprised. From "Don't Worry...

I taught in public high schools for almost forty years. I didn't have serious discipline problems in the classroom. When I introduced my...

National Review 's March edition recognizes the 250 th anniversary of America's Independence with some pretty good essays. From Mar...

A passing reference in a blog I read almost every day sent me looking for "Psychobabble that shields the seriously selfish," a 1...

From a review of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson : Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company...

The mother of a very young son wants to raise him as a "civilized" human being : Unfortunately, “civilized” has become a dirty wor...

From "Kids Deserve Beautiful Books" : By now perhaps you’ve heard that America’s children aren’t interested in reading and aren’t ...

I liked this review of History Matters , a collection of David McCullough's essays and speeches on the subject. Many, if not all, of th...

Kevin DeYoung on a worthy aspiration : We need heroes from the past, as well as inspiration for the present. And the knight has proved to be...

In "There Are No Silver Bullets for Illiteracy" the author explains what some states are doing right about teaching literacy. A c...

Once again this summer, The Telegraph offered "The best children’s books for every age group." It's a pretty good list. A fe...

I was a public school teacher in Madison, Wisconsin. Many (most?) of the students in my high school classes had political and social opinion...

My teaching style was primarily the lecture. There was pressure, especially in the '70s, to avoid lectures in favor of students sitting ...

In its weekly "Things Worth Remembering" essay,  The Free Press publishes "Life Is Real! Life Is Earnest!" quoting fro...

Via Prufrock , from "Nobody Has A Personality Anymore" : Therapy-speak has taken over our language. It is ruining how we talk abou...