Latest by Jeff Minick in Chronicles

• Society & Culture

  October 2019

  Hope in Little Platoons

  For 26 years, I taught hundreds of home-educated students, including my own children. My checkered teaching career also includes a semester in a university, two years at a prison, and two years in a public high school. During my last 15 years of that teaching, I conducted seminars for homeschoolers in Asheville, North Carolina, offering instruction in literature, composition, history, and Latin.

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• Society & Culture

  April 2019

  Happy Warriors

  For decades, conservative commentators and writers have told anyone who would listen that America is going to hell in a handbag. James Burnham’s Suicide of the West, John Derbyshire’s We Are Doomed, Pat Buchanan’s Suicide of a Superpower, Mark Steyn’s After America, and thousands of other books and articles have revealed the damage done to our culture and our republic by the left.

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• Society & Culture

  August 2018

  In Praise of Cultural Appropriation

  Recently I read of a 67-year-old woman who wanted to run in a marathon. She had never run for exercise in her life, but her desire and passion led her to put on a pair of sneakers, leave the house, and walk a mile.

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• Society & Culture

  December 2017

  The Pronouns of Bedlam

  Jordan Peterson and others like him understand in their bones one great truth: Language matters. The names by which we call people, places, and things are vital both to our perceptions of reality and to reality itself.

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• Correspondence

  January 2017

  Blood From a Stone: Observations of a Serf

  Like most conservatives, I believe that the federal government is out of control in its spending and its regulations. Like most conservatives, I believe the chief concerns of that government to be the defense of the United States, international negotiations, and certain interior measures regarding interstate trade and travel.

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Latest by Jeff Minick in ITO

• Economics

  May 29, 2020

  Notes From the Asylum on the CARES Act

  The CARES Act and accompanying stimulus checks raise a number of questions.

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• Education

  May 28, 2020

  The Educational Glue That Binds

  America's students need to know the core knowledge that makes their country great.

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• Culture

  May 26, 2020

  Weathering the Aftershocks of the Pandemic

  The cases of attempted suicides and other lesser mental health problems in America continue to rise in the midst of the COVID-19 shut downs.

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• Culture

  May 22, 2020

  Fighting Back in Our Age of Deceit

  The coronavirus pandemic has been a breeding ground for lies building upon lies as governments, politicians, and the media spread disinformation.

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• History

  May 20, 2020

  Hindsight is 2020: Moving Forward Post-Pandemic

  Our government leaders are making decisions based on the "unknown unknowns" of the COVID-19 pandemic. Few of us envy the decision-makers in this no-win situation.

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