After a teaching career of fifty years, I agree with E. D. Hirsch that the primary problem in American public education is not the high schools, but the poorly organized, ineffective elementary school curricula, including the idiotic books of childish fiction. Continue Reading »
A leader needs the ability to champion an institution’s goals in reasonable, moral terms that can win approbation from both subordinates and outsiders. Bad conduct, incompetent speech, neglect of institutional goods, pursuit of private or factional interests—all of that dishonors and dispirits the whole enterprise. Continue Reading »
Stanley Kurtz joins the podcast to discuss how the federal government manipulates state-level education requirements, drawing from Kurtz's recent National Review article “Bogus ‘Civics' Bill Will Push CRT on States.” Continue Reading »
After almost a century, what fruit has the conservative distinction between nature and history yielded? Many conservatives today gather in the shade of the tree grown by Leo Strauss, who concluded that because modern man had abandoned nature and been seduced by history, all things—including . . . . Continue Reading »
Edith Stein argued that men and women alike are equally called to imitate God, but that they imitate the divine being in different ways.
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Catholic schools will produce Catholic students only if they are staffed by committed Catholic educators. Continue Reading »
We welcome the Supreme Court's explicit recognition that faith-based schools that retain a strong distinctive mission must not be punished for it. Continue Reading »
The assumption that classical education doesn’t serve all students can only be made by someone unfamiliar with the Western tradition and the high place of Catholic thought, literature, and art within it. Continue Reading »
The Parental Rights in Education Bill is a step in the right direction, but merely appealing to parental rights is not enough. Continue Reading »
To our Catholic school leadership, please: Stop listening to the mediocrities and half-hearted Catholics, and go with the true believers and dedicated souls. Continue Reading »
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