Frat Boys and the Household
If you follow college "culture" at all, you'll find little new or surprising in the recent discussions of the abusive hazing rituals at Dartmouth,...
Homeschool Community
As a homeschooling parent I'm continually frustrated by the difficulty of talking about why we do what we do. Homeschooling is nearly always portrayed...
A Burke for Our Times
Edmund Burke was the greatest master of the English language, not even excepting Shakespeare. It is no doubt a startling claim, but one that...
A Burke for Our Times
In a wonderful article published here at FPR a few weeks ago, Jason Peters argued that a proper education ought to provoke a kind...
Egalitarian Elites and the Academic Dilemma
It doesn't take an acquaintance with Tocqueville to spot the flaws in many American claims about equality. Just go to school. You soon learn...
Paleoconservatism in Middle Schoolers: a Deeply Flawed Qualitative Study (sample size:...
The Regents, New York's public school state tests, are coming up in May, and so some of the time I've been spending with S,...
Call an Assembly: The First Duty
In The Supper of the Lamb, a delightfully odd book, Robert Farrar Capon suggests as an exercise in reality an extended session with an...
Education and the Way Home
Holland, MI
The recent dispute between Joe Carter over at First Things and various occupants of the Porch has already received a good deal of...