My latest for CiRCE is really more of a McSweeney’s piece, but I’ve collected too many rejection letters from that place to send them anything else. Of the piece, I would add this: There is no fashionable big corporate banality which is not a temptation for private education, as well.
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The inexperienced man trusts human beings; the experienced man trusts human nature. The inexperienced man finds common sense offensive and cruel; the experienced man knows the alternatives to common sense are crueler still. My latest for CiRCE is a series of proverbs about experience.
More On Senior Thesis
“No thesis statement should be approved which merely calls for the government to make a new law or spend more money. Assuming the audience of a senior thesis is the high school student body, the only thesis statements that should be approved are those which an audience of high school students can personally, immediately respondContinue reading “More On Senior Thesis”
The Writing Life
“Very few high school writing teachers are writers. Non-writers who teach writing are generally more optimistic (and more vocal) about the prospect of ‘making good writers’ out of high school students, which is why many parents believe their sons and daughters can become better writers while maintaining debilitating screen addictions, writing very little, and almostContinue reading “The Writing Life”
Other Compelling Lessons I Learned From “The Crown”
“While I appreciate the fact the so-called “Matthew 18 principle” prohibits gossip and slander, many Christians treat the “Matthew 18 principle” as a kind of theological-bureaucratic rigmarole that must be blown through before the real work of dismantling someone’s reputation or career can be “righteously” undertaken. I find it telling that the eighteenth chapter ofContinue reading “Other Compelling Lessons I Learned From “The Crown””
This Is What I Learned From “The Crown”
Can we talk about what happened in DC the other day? My latest for CiRCE concerns discussions of recent events in the classroom.
I Like To Start The Year Off With Something Bracing, Lest Complacency Set In
My latest for CiRCE is about the present direction of classical Christian schools.
Hypocrisy Will Sneak Up On You Like That
My latest for CiRCE is about the strange, circuitous, and self-defeating path many private school kids take away from hypocrisy that just lands them squarely in the lap of hypocrisy.
Why Do People Who Do Not Want A Classical Education For Their Children Send Their Children To A Classical School Anyway?
My latest for CiRCE answers this very question. While I believe such scenarios often involve honest misunderstandings, those misunderstandings can and should be cleared up early on. How? Why? Read on.
Can We Redeem TikTok For Jesus? No.
My latest for CiRCE tackles the idea that tools are morally neutral and that Christians need to redeem every last banal, insipid waste of time the world throws at us.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 