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My mom knew that she could not transfer the entire corpus of Western thought to us because she didn’t have it. But she did have love

But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love

may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer

The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn

it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.

It is not too much to say that everything in our culture pushes against habits

“Opportunities that were not available to some due to race, socioeconomic class, or gender became available through industrial education efforts”

If classical schools insist on banning AI in all forms, their kids will be left behind.

And Robin and I really hope that this book can be part of that movement to help people get outside the Machine, throw sand in its gears, and live as…

Instead of appreciating the local and the staggering beauty of our God-given world, as FPR suggests we do, the good life requires million-dollar jaunts into outer space.

Are we capable of that on a scale that will regenerate our political life? Perhaps not, at least for now, but we can take heart from the knowledge that, over…

To rush AI into the classroom or into daily life is to put student well-being at stake. And as Kingsnorth reminds us, refusal to accept certain forms of technology can…

The promise of AI is utopian and seems futuristic, but its effects on the educational landscape will make students nostalgic for the pre-ChatGPT days of yore.

Rather than forging a new identity, she returns to old paths. Moana is not following her inner voice. She is listening to the echoes of her ancestors.

Our need for privacy has been accentuated by the way we live, in which goods and services arrive seemingly out of the ether, things we’ve bought to consume, throw away,…

Proper forgetting depends on the idea of a nation itself. For Renan, “a nation is a soul, a spiritual principle” built on two things, the past and the present.

To prove the American proposition, we must dedicate our lives to its truth with our deeds every day, and maybe someday with our lives themselves.

Between these extremes, however, is free choice within reasonable limits, which I believe makes the value of community and its deliberative fruits still possible, even within the reality of the…

While she relates the years of kaleidoscopic confusion, she provides waypoints to keep the reader grounded: “This is where we are, and this is where we’re going.”

In other words, knowledge and reason are no match for our gargantuan vices. The giants passion and pride cannot be held at bay by the ignorance that prevails in public…

Perhaps one day moral clarity on this issue will be found or the values of the American people will align more neatly. Until that day arrives, if ever it does,…

I had to understand life and nature not as something to be mastered, but as gifts afforded to me to steward by a God abundant in goodness.

You don’t have to be normal. You don’t have to be weird. You just have to be a person – which is a moral ideal, not a fact of nature…

To love and learn from each other in our communities is what good gossiping accomplishes.