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Where Education Is At

David Steiner joins the podcast to discuss the state of public education in America and his work as director of the Johns Hopkins Institute For Education Policy. Continue Reading »

6 Sep 2021

Teacher Appreciation

by Dale M. Coulter

This week is the time to show appreciation for the teachers in our lives. Continue Reading »

10 May 2018

Thomas Joseph White Teaches Catholicism

by Mary Eberstadt

Fr. Thomas Joseph White’s The Light of Christ is a most unusual combination of literary humility and splendid erudition. Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2017

Any sort of “creeping infallibility” that would attach the same level of authority to every papal utterance or document must be avoided. To fail to draw appropriate distinctions—whether between binding and non-binding documents of the ordinary magisterium, or between the development and the evolution of doctrine—is to dim the light of the Petrine ministry and impoverish the faithful. Continue Reading »

27 Sep 2016

Delight in the Good

by Karen Swallow Prior

On The Challenge of Entertainment Continue Reading »

22 Sep 2016

What’s Preaching For?

by Peter J. Leithart

What should a preacher do in his Sunday sermon? Lecture on the Bible? Talk about Jesus? Tell stories? Comment on current events? Exhort Christians to live Christianly? Continue Reading »

9 Sep 2016

Teaching as Joyful Rebellion

by Carl R. Trueman

Good teachers must believe something: That the world is and is inexhaustibly greater than they are. Continue Reading »

7 Sep 2016

A Third Way?

by Carol Iannone

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward j. larson basic, 318 pages, $25, $14.95 If there are moments in history when “the road not taken” might have changed the course of events, the famous “Monkey Trial,” held in Dayton, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1999

The Educational Vise

by Quentin L. Quade

The widely noted appearance of John Chubb and Terry Moe’s Politics, Markets & America’s Schools reminds us again of the fundamental problem in American educational policy: the disposition in every state to fund the public schools at often lavish levels and to tax citizens accordingly, while at . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1990