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The Subversive Art of Poetry
To memorize a Shakespearean sonnet or a passage from Dante is to resist the erosion of memory, to store within oneself a treasury of language and…
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The Subversive Art of Annotation
To annotate is to engage in whispered dialogue with the dead. The hand tracing notes in the margin is shaking hands across time, reaching into the past…
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The Subversive Art of Traditional Grammar
It’s time to mount a counter-offensive against the cult of grammatical dissolution, the hive-mind of unpunctuated abandon where rules are discarded not…
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Beauty & the Grammar of Stone - Part III
The Doric, the earliest of the three classical orders, was a systematized response to the problem of upholding weight with grace and disciplining the…
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Snapchat & the Vanishing Ethics of Youth
An app promoting impulsivity over reflection, secrecy over transparency, and temporary gratification over lasting relationships has come to dominate…
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The Subversive Art of Teaching Western Civ.
If education is to develop moral character and civic virtue, then students must understand the principles upon which their society is built.
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The Subversive Art of Logic
Logic is not merely another subject in the curriculum; it is the foundation upon which all true education rests, the means by which the mind is trained…
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Beauty & the Grammar of Stone - Part II
Like spoken and written language, architecture possesses its own grammar: a set of principles governing the arrangement of its elements, ensuring…
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The Subversive Art of Geometry
To study Euclid is to engage in a discipline that is valuable not because it produces wealth but because it trains the mind to see order, harmony, and…
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Resisting the Call for a ‘Digital Mindset’
From the heights of the digital sanctum, the decree descends, veiled in the language of innovation but heavy with obligation, an edict issued not for…
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A.I. and the Illusion of Intelligence
What A.I. offers is an illusion of intelligence and a seduction of ease, but not the kind of deep, self-reliant wisdom that true education demands.
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The Subversive Art of Slow Reading
What was once an act of immersion has now become an exercise in evasion. There’s no time to linger or to contemplate because the screen is perpetually…
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