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Decoding America's Cultural Revolution
Christopher Rufo channels a voice akin to an unsentimental anthropologist documenting the rise and spread of an ideological pathogen.
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The Moral Landscape of Stories
Modern education has forgotten that stories are not mere reflections of a society’s morals, but active constructions that challenge readers to…
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False Flags of Censorship: Why School Library Standards Matter
Selecting books for a school library is an assertion of mission, a deliberate act of intellectual formation that serves the overarching aim of education…
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Michael S. Rose
Shakespeare's Syllabus for the Education of the Soul
The Bard's "Seven Ages of Man" is not merely a meditation on the passage of time; it is a reminder that wisdom is a journey through the shifting…
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Gentle Absurdities and Profound Simplicities
A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories transform into blueprints for living well among others, providing the scaffolding of an ethics as old and enduring…
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of the Imagination
Classical education finds in Tolkien a natural ally—a man who understood that the cultivation of wisdom requires not only logic and rhetoric but also…
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Michael S. Rose
The Sublime Discipline of Wrestling with Ignorance
In a culture obsessed with shortcuts, students should not be passive consumers of knowledge but active participants who understand that true learning…
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Michael S. Rose
How Fashionable Delusions Spread
Gad Saad's The Parasitic Mind shines its light on the modern plague of intellectual corruption
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Michael S. Rose
A Hushed Lament for the Rewired Childhood
A review of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
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Michael S. Rose
The Quiet Crisis of the Digital Age
A Review of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
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Notre Dame: The Bell Tolls for the Sacred
It's a great time to reread Victor Hugo's masterpiece
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Michael S. Rose
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