Category: Academics

If you are like me, this quote from Samuel D. James’s Digital Liturgies resonates: “We demand shorter and shorter books that will accommodate our diminished focus and present to us more like what we read online.” Reading requires diligence in habit and… Read More

Last month we discussed the need for many of us to recover from a malnourished education. To highlight the point, it wasn’t until after college that I read for the first time Homer, Aristotle, Augustine, Dostoyevsky, Melville, or O’Connor. Sad.  … Read More

If you are like me, you are recovering from an anemic school experience that failed to offer you the best education. Sure, you might have learned from a few good teachers, and perhaps even read some classic works, but likely… Read More

Last month we reviewed Jonathan Haidt’s powerful book, The Anxious Generation. Haidt encourages parents to avoid giving children smartphones until high school and prohibit social media until age sixteen. He also advocates for phone-free schools and increased unsupervised play to build… Read More