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A Great Teacher and a Welcome Manifesto
1+ week, 3+ day ago (188+ words) Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day. In those innocent days, these things seemed as immutable as the law of gravity. So at…...
The Community Answering the College Faith-Abandonment Crisis
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (316+ words) After learning about the Oaks Retreat during her Auburn tour, Caitlyn Holmes decided to attend the Arch Retreat as a freshman at the University of Georgia. During her sophomore year, she signed up to be a counselor and saw the…...
Worth Beyond Our Works
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (152+ words) In the future, everyone will know the grief of Garry Kasparov. The Russian grandmaster was bested by the chess-playing computer Deep Blue in 1997. No human competitor since then has made a plausible run at taking the title back. When our…...
How to Bring Back School Prayer
6+ mon, 20+ hour ago (572+ words) The controlling opinions in Engel at all three levels of New York’s courts were based in the Zorach tradition. Chief Judge Desmond wrote for the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest, that when the Founders ratified the establishment clause, The…...
Students for Notre Dame
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (279+ words) Despite nationwide pushback, however, Notre Dame continued to back the appointment publicly. The university issued a statement to EWTN News, saying that Ostermann was “well prepared” to “advance our dedication to serving as the preeminent global Catholic research institution.” Then,…...
Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong
7+ mon, 20+ hour ago (68+ words) Michael J. Mazza is a canon and civil lawyer who teaches canon law at the Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, and at the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Create an account below to continue reading. Or,…...
A Nonsectarian Version of the Ten Commandments
8+ mon, 3+ day ago (452+ words) Over the past two years, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas passed laws requiring posters of the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. Predictably, critics argue that even these passive displays are unconstitutional. The three authors of this essay…...