May 2020

As we reflect back on this year it is tempting to think about all that we have missed and lose sight of the good. Much of what I have read about the impact of the virus focuses on the more exceptional and superficial things we have lost—“we can’t go out to dinner and a movie […]

A lot of you are probably wondering what school is going to look like next year. Right now we are in the process of putting together a protocol to ensure that we are doing what we can to keep our community safe while also ensuring that our students get the education that they need and

Senator Sasse foresees three challenges in the near future: 1) Accelerating technologies are going to make a lot of current jobs disappear. 2) The coming-of-age crisis that he’s discussed in this book. 3) The fact that in times of economic disruption we see the rise of people who offer quick fixes, nativist campaigns, and more

Allan Bloom: the failure to read good books both narrows people’s vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency: the belief that the here and now is all there is. America was founded deliberately by people who believed in heaven and hell, who thought about rights and responsibilities, and that considered what type of society would