From our July 1984 issue, a review of James Webb’s third novel, A Country Such As This (Doubleday). Yesterday Webb…

On Holy Thursday, my wife and I drove down from our home in San Jose, CA, about 300 miles to…

My wife and I are gearing up for our eleventh year of homeschooling. We started in 1995, after our two…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — During the first six weeks of the summer break, I teach a course in general linguistics,…

One day about four years ago, the classics department chairman came into my office to share an idea he’d been…

Two Fridays ago, about twenty minutes before my 11:45 Elementary Latin class, a student came to my office to drop…