Teaching the Past with Woody Allen
As much as the past has to teach us, we can never live there. To assume that we ought to is to nurse an unfulfillable longing; teaching our students to do the same is to encourage fantasy.
Cicero
What Does it Mean for a Book to Be “Great”? A Conversation with Wes Callihan, Martin Cothran, & Andrew Kern
In the world of classical education, we talk about “Great Books.” However, other than a handful of obvious works (those by Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, and a few others in particular) there is much debate about which books should actually fall in the category of “Great Book”. Which raises the question: what does it mean …
A Template For Reviewing Everything From Books To French Restaurants
While Cicero’s Rhetorica ad Herennium commends a six-part structure for an argument, there is an elegance to the way each part gives way to the next which is worthy of imitation in non-argumentative essays, as well. In the last two years, I’ve written nearly a hundred film reviews for FilmFisher and found that I often …
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The Lost Tools of Birthing
How England’s Elizabethan Renaissance Offers Guidance to us for a Similar Experience