Thucydides: The Other Father of History
Thucydides:The Other Father of History Fifth-century BC Athens is one of the keys to understanding Western thought and history. For better or worse, to this day, our politics, …
Student Essay: Civility and Civic Discourse
Student Essay:Civility and Civic Discourse It is terrible to think where our country would be today if our Founding Fathers had refused to exercise civil discourse the way …
Disruption, or Development?
Disruption, or Development? There are few questions as contentious in education as what the curriculum should be and why. As Charlotte Mason pointed out over a century ago, …
Bethune: Relentless Hope
Bethune: Relentless Hope Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina to parents who were enslaved, the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Sam …
Student Essay: The Role of Evil
Student Essay:The Role of Evil Would we appreciate goodness if evil did not exist? Because evil’s shadow threatens to destroy goodness, humans fight to conquer evil daily; for …
Light at the Port
Light at the Port In 2014, I had an experience at Franciscan University, Steubenville, that I will never forget. I arrived on campus sometime before 6 AM, in …
Top Ten With West
Top Ten With West We recently had the pleasure of hosting Ivy League scholar Dr. Cornel West on our weekly podcast, Anchored. An immensely literate man, it was …
Stowe: Liberty and Justice for All
Stowe:Liberty and Justice for All Born into one prominent abolitionist family and married into another, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the most influential women of her day. …
Student Essay: Siblings in “Pride and Prejudice”
Student Essay:Siblings in Pride and Prejudice The world of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is filled with the tensions of romance, class distinctions, inheritance, and the faults and …
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The Great Conversation: Custom & Convention
The Great Conversation:Custom & Convention One of the oldest conversations in philosophy is about the contrast—to some minds, conflict—between custom or convention on the one hand and nature …
