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When I teach my history classes, especially the one on modern US history, I am often asked what I would do to fix the country. I‘ve written on this before and I stand by all of my suggestions. Yet, in the wake of yet another confusing and perhaps disastrous election, I come back to what…
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“make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of those who are not Christians, and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” Writing to a group of Christians living…
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“To educate means to help the human soul enter into the totality of the real,” so writes Luigi Giussani in The Risk of Education. This idea means generally seeing education as an effort to enable students to connect to reality rather than simply present facts or skills. I think most of my most recent…