2+ week, 4+ day ago   (321+ words) As we peered over a lookout, taking in the scenery, my three-year-old son said to me, “Can you do statues touch the sky one?” I was confused. “What?” “Like statues touch the sky,” he said. I finally realized that he…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (935+ words) Jeffrey Bilbro is an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (689+ words) Then he said, “We need to go back to analog, Dad.” I laughed and suggested going straight to rotary phones. He smiled briefly, then returned to his point. Then she changed her mind. She chose a boy with a car…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (138+ words) Image Credit: Norman Rockwell, “Lift Up Thine Eyes” (1965) Rebecca Skabelund lives and works with her family on a small farm in central Utah. She and her husband write a joint Substack called Worthless Thoughts. Richard Spencer: "I guess I just…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (277+ words) The... English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past... He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (822+ words) Carl Menger, one of the founders of the marginalist revolution in economics, argues against this Aristotelian just-price tradition as follows: the… error of regarding the quantities of goods in an exchange as equivalents. The result was incalculable damage to our…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (788+ words) We bemoan the idea that this generation may not be as materially rich as its parents but downplay the pressures on resources caused by the proliferation of material wealth, the crime fueled by our addictions, plastic and narcotic, and the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (414+ words) I did school online before it was cool. In the earliest decades of the modern homeschooling movement, such classes would have been unimaginable—not only because the technology for them didn’t yet exist, but because homeschooling’s dubious legal status made…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (152+ words) Andrew Mercer serves as Theologian-in-Residence at the O’Reilly Catholic Student Center in Springfield, Missouri. He is also an adjunct instructor at both Missouri State University and Saint Louis University. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Southern Methodist University…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (447+ words) This is first of a series of essays we’re running that respond to Magnifica Humanitas. To develop a different imagination, CST employs one foundation and several principles (sometimes called themes). The first half of Magnifica Humanitas reviews these central ideas....