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Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts

March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The Right, Western Civilization

I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Scalia. And I consider myself way on the conservative end of the scale. We don’t diss math because white collar criminals use it. We don’t speak against sex because some men rape women. Why don’t we think and discuss liberal education the same way? ======= By Christopher J. Scalia March 27, 2015 6:07 p.m. ET Dismissing the... Read more

Fighting to Keep Catholic Schools Catholic

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Religious Persecution, Western Civilization

Worth the read. And worth taking a stand for private institutions. ========== By Ryan T. Anderson And Leslie Ford March 5, 2015 7:09 p.m. ET San Franciscans are currently debating a simple question: Should the government respect the right of Catholic schools to be authentically Catholic? San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone thinks so. But eight California senators and assemblymen sent the archbishop a letter last... Read more

Daily Doses From the Harvard Classics

December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Personal Development, Western Civilization

Pursuing a liberal education with disciplined attention to Cicero, Swift, Hume and others on the ‘five-foot shelf.’
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