What Happens When Homeless People Memorize Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address
‘I got three of my other homeless friends to help me work on this in the park where we sleep. And now, they know it too! So if we can do it, all y’all don’t have any excuse!’
The Progressive Movement Rejected The Founders’ Model For Lawmaking
Progressives rejected the natural law and natural rights arguments of the Declaration of Independence, and believed they were outdated for the needs of modern society.
Why The U.S. Founders Rooted The Legislative Branch In Natural Law
Our laws are intended to be an expression of our God-given ability to reason.
This College President Is Willing To Tell You College Isn’t For Everyone
‘Everybody should have an opportunity to learn all they want to,’ says Hillsdale College’s Larry Arnn, “but the idea that everybody should get a college education… can only be true if college means a wide variety of things.’
How Mark Twain Used Child Characters To Critique Adults
Mark Twain treats the consciousness of children seriously in his works ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’
Why Studying Mark Twain Is Essential To Understanding America Today
‘The young love hardly anything better than to laugh. And if they do love something more than that, they love to learn more than that. If you read Mark Twain, you get to do both at the same time.’
How Jane Austen Pulled Off A Feat Of Genius In ‘Northanger Abbey’
In her satirical take on Gothic fiction, Austen pokes fun at some of the overwrought conventions prevalent at the time, but is careful not to condemn the genre as a whole.
Jane Austen Explains Why Real Life Is More Mysterious Than Fiction
Throughout ‘Northanger Abbey,’ Jane Austen explains why an untempered imagination can be misleading, and why real life is more mysterious than fiction.
Why Jane Austen Made An Ordinary Girl The Heroine Of ‘Northanger Abbey’
A woman doesn’t need to be impossibly beautiful or virtuous in order to overcome challenges like a protagonist in a novel.
How Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ Reveals Her Satirical Genius
Reading ‘Northanger Abbey’ is essential to understanding Jane Austen’s use of satire throughout the entire canon of her books.
Why Reading Jane Austen Is Essential To Understanding Virtue And Vice
Virtues like courage and moderation are character traits that reveal themselves when one is faced with great adversity or great pleasure.
How Athens Rebuilt Itself, Only To Be Defeated By A Foreign Power
Athens’ defeat at the hands of Philip II of Macedon effectively ended freedom and intellectual life in the Western world for several centuries.
Why Sparta Collapsed After Defeating Athens And Building An Empire
The Spartans opened themselves up to attacks when they tried to impose their way of life upon the people they subjugated.
How Sparta Beat Back Athens In The Peloponnesian War
After the defeat of the invading Persians, tensions between Athens and Sparta began to escalate, which would ultimately result in an all-out war several decades later.
How Athens’ Foresight Saved Ancient Greece From Invading Persians
Themistocles convinced the Spartans to join the Athenians to fight and ultimately crush the Persians at the Battle of Plataea in 479 B.C.
How Sparta Saved Ancient Greece, And Western Civilization, From The Persian Empire
The Spartans’ integral role in the victory over Persia changed the course of human history forever.
What Self-Governing Societies Can Learn From Ancient Athens
In the third lecture of Hillsdale College’s course on the histories of Athens and Sparta, Victor Davis Hanson asks: ‘What is the chief virtue of Athens?’
What Ancient Sparta Can Teach Us About Politics Today
The elaborate social and political structure of Spartan society can teach us much about self-governance today.
What Americans Must Do To Restore The Constitution
Temperance, frugality, and courage are virtues that individuals must possess in order to be free.
No, Vice President Pence Wasn’t Wrong To Call Faith In America ‘Vibrant’
The Washington Post asserts Mike Pence selectively claimed ‘that the percentage of truly religious [citizens] in the United States have remained consistent in recent decades…’
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