Kenneth Jackson, writing in the New York Times, commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, written in 1657 by Edward Hart and his fellow Flushing, New York, citizens to protest the public torture of a Quaker preacher and the fining and imprisonment of non-Quakers who allowed them to meet in their homes. Jackson notes [...]
With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt, you end up seeing more everywhere….
–Harry Mount, A Vote for Latin.
I completely agree–with a big thank you to Mrs. Robeson, who taught me lingua latina and classical humanities at Lane Technical High School, and introduced me to the depths of world civilizations. Even though [...]
There were people singing this song together who, politically, had nothing in common and probably wouldn’t have talked to each other…. It’s just the story of a little guy against a big world. It’s not so much an anti-war song as a song against stupidity…
We got to listen to Grendel gorging flesh and griding bone in the mini-van on the way home from church today…
It makes a sensational, controversial headline: A Harry Potter-centered curriculum boosts a failing school into the top 5 percent. Students must recite a spell (“numerus subtracticus”) when answering math questions.
But on closer inspection, this turns out not to be just a school carried off into frightening conformity to the current fad. Whatever [...]
