January 12, 2024

 This essay is a test. Classical schools claim to value logic. Logic, we say, is how one learns to find the truth. Logic is a prerequisite for rhetoric; we must know how to find the truth before we can persuade others of the truth. In practice though, logic seems to bear very little weight in […]

 “Reading is not a hobby. Find something else to do.”   Those words, uttered on the phone by my boyfriend as I read to him an old backlist from seventh grade (including such titles as Gone With the Wind and the Oresteia) raised my defenses. Fortunately, he continued, “Reading is not a hobby, it is an