One Eternal Day

Tomorrow is Labor Day in the US. As I have done in the past for Labor Day , I re-post part of a 1942 address by Dorothy L. Sayers: "Why...

Paul Kingsnorth writes "I Found Freedom Along the Alaska Highway," sometimes quoting from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of ...

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

Although published more than three years ago, I only came across it yesterday while searching for something else. Buchan is one of my favori...

Cosmo Landesman "In praise of the silent people" : We Silent People don’t sign on-line petitions or go on protests to show solidar...

Mark Tooley on "Douglas Wilson’s America." The subtitle is "His work to create a confessionally Christian state is the wrong...

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 ...

Dirda has reappeared at The Washington Post with "What are the best adventure novels?" including a list of books that he would c...

A few excerpts from "Why the Revolution Never Ends" : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously began The Communist Manifesto (1848...

Tolkien delivered "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" in 1936, before he began writing the Middle-earth books. This is from ...

From  "The Seven Most Popular G.K. Chesterton Quotes He Never Said" : “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell ...

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

I find it annoying when local churches indulge in cute "branding." The first time I recall feeling that way was when a church that...

I have reached what I once would have considered an advanced age. From Patrick Kurp's "The Ice Growing Thinner Below Our Feet"...

At NRO, Giancarlo Sopo recommends "What to Watch on the Fourth of July." I really like this one and I think I'll watch it ton...

Calvin Coolidge on the 150 th anniversary of Independence Day: .... It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but becau...

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

I haven't posted much here recently because I simply haven't come across things that interested me enough to go to the trouble. But ...

I taught middle school and (mostly) high school social studies and history for thirty-six years. During that time, the curriculum evolved in...