This week at Thales College, my students encountered T. S. Eliot’s broken epic of social, spiritual, and intellectual fragmentation, The…
My brother is currently a sophomore in college, and he hasn’t read a single book in the entirety of his…
Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula By Wilfred Reilly (Broadside Books, 272…
This semester at Thales College, I am teaching a survey course focusing on literature, most of it English poetry, from…
Institutional Neutrality and the Truth I have noted in recent days that several American colleges have declared themselves “institutionally neutral,”…
Every year when the school season starts I remember that I was a lousy student in school until I got…
One of the most striking things about higher education is that many of the world’s greatest geniuses never had much,…
Imagine that you are a lover of folk music and your friend prefers the music of the big bands. Imagine…
So-called “higher” education is supposed to be all about truth, beauty, and progress, achieved through learning and discovery. “Truths” are…
