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Why Homeschool?

Brian Patrick Eha

My father used to quiz us at the kitchen table, my older brother and me, during dinner. Geography and civics, science and religion, plus whatever general knowledge he thought...

Heresy Costs

Brian Patrick Eha

About one-third of the way into Nick Cave’s Southern Gothic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989), the false prophet Abie Poe leads a congregation of three hundred souls in...

No Living with the Killing

Brian Patrick Eha

Midway through the brutal Western film The Proposition (2005), there is a crucial moment when the outlaw Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) trains a six-gun on his elder brother and...

Rossetti the Unmodern

Brian Patrick Eha

Life wreathes flowers for death to wear. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), who said as much, is dead and gone, his sonnets deader still, if we may judge by classroom...