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November 2025
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Oct 2025

Novelist and Believer
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Love What Lasts
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It begins with work
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October 2025
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Sep 2025

September 2025
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Aug 2025

At last, a teacher
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My Life for Yours
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The disappointed reader
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Gillian Clarke - Cold Knap Lake
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Julia Kasdorf - What I Learned from My Mother
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John Updike - Hoeing
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R. S. Thomas - Farm Wife
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Wendy Cope - The Orange
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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Sonnet XLIII
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AI and film editing
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On education and discipline
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Thomas Moore - Venetian Air
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Robert Phillips - The Changed Man
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August 2025
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Frank O’Hara - Animals
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Jul 2025

John Clare - First Love
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Deeper, Dane Ortlund
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Jacobs on Goia’s ideal university
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What Uses to Put Milton To
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Jane Kenyon - Staying at Grandma’s
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William Wordsworth - Surprised by Joy
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - from Frost at Midnight
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Ben Jonson - On My First Son
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The Checklist Manifesto
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John Masefield - Spanish Waters
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Robert Frost - The Investment
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Chidiock Tichborne - Elegy
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The Worst Journey in the World
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Great Good Place
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Literacy in the ancient world
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How Not to Write a Hot Take
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Dear Hemlock
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July 2025
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Jun 2025

Hallucinations won’t go away
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Bad Therapy
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Walden
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Writing style and personal style
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Poetry as Enchantment
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Nouwen on fundraising
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Idaho Lore
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Ayjay’s deafness
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Everyone’s talking about leisure
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Education in the Bible
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Domestic Monastery
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June 2025
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May 2025

May 2025
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Apr 2025

Technology and the sexes
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Thinking is irrelevant
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April 2025
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Mar 2025

March 2025
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Feb 2025

A certain form of energy
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February 2025
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Jan 2025

Edward’s last words
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A Stone from the Cathedral
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January 2025
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Dec 2024

Brief notes on de Botton
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The Midnight Folk
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Reading about architecture
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Building and writing
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From Stendhal
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December 2024
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Nov 2024

What buildings say
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Architecture makes nothing happen
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Be a little sad
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Wittgenstein on building a house
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Reflected Glory
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The Mystery by White
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Penny Plain
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Chandlerisms
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November 2024
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Oct 2024

Chandler on detective fiction
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October 2024
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Sep 2024

September 2024
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Aug 2024

Memory and understanding
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An endless procession
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August 2024
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Jul 2024

The American Boy
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Taking pains
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Twitter vs Substack
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July 2024
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Jun 2024

June 2024
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May 2024

Notes on acting
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May 2024
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Apr 2024

April 2024
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Mar 2024

Memento
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March 2024
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February 2024
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Jan 2024

Andrew Pudewa on schools
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January
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Ornament in architecture
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Dec 2023

AI will take over the internet
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Links on art
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December
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Nov 2023

Kevin DeYoung tries to untangle his feelings about DW
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Deconstruction in Japan
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November
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Oct 2023

Hills and the Sea
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A soul capable of God
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Clownish devils and devilish clowns
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October
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Sep 2023

Hold on to Your Kids
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Using their work against them
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What neutral world?
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More Buchan
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September
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Aug 2023

Back to social?
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August
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Jul 2023

Ashurbanipal, scholar extraordinaire
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Ryan Holiday - How to Write a Book
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Ryan Holiday - How I Work
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An insult to life itself
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Strive to die nobly
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The Basis of Culture
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From Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
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July
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Jun 2023

Fires and time
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Johnson on writing a book
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June
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May 2023

What the Second Word Forbids
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Nonleaders
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Legalism and libertinism
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A large vocabulary
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Near praise is best
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Coupland, Tried & True
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Sanctification
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Everyone’s price
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To watch
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No such thing as anarchy
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Blogroll
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From iPhone
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What is culture anyway?
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The coming grind
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Heather Armstrong, OG
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More quotes from Machen
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Fake intelligence
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Worship is not evangelism
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May
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Apr 2023

Toynbee on education
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The right fit
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On watching footage of WWII
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The Headmaster
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Misunderstanding classical ed
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Useful things
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More from Machen
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April
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Mar 2023

Government-sponsored religion
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Environment
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Traffic patterns
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More on culture
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The business of schools
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Do not “do”; consider
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An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education
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March
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Third
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Plate glass
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Feb 2023

Defending Boyhood
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Religion externalized
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Trumbull on self-control
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The rights of the child
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Training in duty
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Training the will
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Hints on Child-Training
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Defining culture
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The culture of the road
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Why we come to church
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Tree, Moon, and Flagpole
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The Fear
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Sharp objects
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The Banshees of Inisherin
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Parenting essentials
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The basic shape of the world
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February
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Jan 2023

On directing
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The way of faith
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Truth in cinema
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Films enjoyable in the making
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Movies and technology
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Film studio strike
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Transhuman women
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Typing errors
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How to write a book
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The Honorable Death of the Hundred Million
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A waterfall
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Good works as signs
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Failure statement
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A few from Buchan
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Against professors
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Sins make all equal
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Pool shark
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Uncle
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College for bards
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TV does not have to be passive
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You know, for kids
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Real adventure at the center of the line
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Explore the world on foot
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On the good gifts of God
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Rainstorm
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From Niebuhr’s Leaves
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Secret blessings
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Outward appearances
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January
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What’s done is undone
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An acre of barren ground
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To watch: Best films of 1932
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Dec 2022

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s note-card method
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The editor
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The failure of the law
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God loves us anyway
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From DW’s worst-titled book
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Crushed by books
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Be brave!
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Twisted pine
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Bits n pieces
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Christmas 2022
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Knives Out 2
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Clare Coffey on It’s a Wonderful Life
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Two paths of rhetoric
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Good ones from Raymond Chandler
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Ruskin on education
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No Davids or Hectors in this system
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What stands in the way of educational reform
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New and generous sorrow
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Invisible church
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A Rhetoric of Love
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Detecting AI-generated essays
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Civilization defined
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The martyrdom of the holy innocents
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Cyprian on martyrdom
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Detail of Alabama Theater
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James Cameron’s Avatar by the numbers
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On Christian magic
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The knowledge economy
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Learning by excellence
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Fast food
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Holy place vs holy time
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TSA’s facial recognition system
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Maria Montessori on work and play
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Alissa Wilkinson reviews The Whale
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Samuel Hunter on Moscow
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To the new old net
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History resources for teachers
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Using novels to predict the future
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Rote memorization
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Things you’re allowed to do
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Connecting unknown through known
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The Creator’s mirrored will
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The object of education
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Sub-creation
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More Tolkien humor: Bill Stickers
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Tolkien’s sense of humor
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Just passing through
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Humility in hierarchy
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Tolkien on respecting one’s superiors
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Nov 2022

Odysseus, the haggard wanderer
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To be remote and strange, yet not to be a lie
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Psychology
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Son of Pain
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Unde Hoc Ei
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