How Reading Great Literature Helps Protect You From Big Brother’s Thought Control
The turn language is taking in politics calls to mind that controlling language to control thought was a prime goal of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s ‘1984.’
Andrea Mitchell And Jen Rubin Own Themselves Trying To Correct Ted Cruz’s Shakespeare
The fiasco trended near the top on Twitter Wednesday night, swiftly becoming an issue those on the right and left could agree on.
No, Erasing ‘White’ Authors From Schools Won’t Help Kids Read Better
People mentally born yesterday pretend this is a new and exciting educational idea. What it really is is ignorant, narrow-minded, and racist.
To Further Politicize Curriculum, Teachers Are Dumping More Classic Literature
The woke left rejects Homer, and the rest of the Western canon, because they hate any art that doesn’t reinforce their narrow-minded ideology.
How To Stop Schools From Replacing True Virtue With Leftist Virtue Signaling
After purging public schools of Judeo-Christian virtues, the left replaced them with five pseudo-virtues: tolerance, inclusivism, egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and environmentalism.
Why We Must Separate Artists’ Professional And Personal Expression
Libby Emmons and Paulina Enck join Emily Jashinsky to discuss Harry Potter author and radical feminist J.K. Rowling’s stance against transgenderism.
Woke Protesters Come For Oprah’s Book Club
Jeanine Cummins’ bestselling novel ‘American Dirt’ has elicited protests over the author’s lack of Latinx credentials, but the bigger problem is that the book is plodding moralistic melodrama.
Minneapolis Rioters Burned One Of America’s Most Beloved Independent Bookstores To The Ground
Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s were legendary among the community of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery readers—and now they’re gone.
The ‘Wolf Hall’ Series Is A Landmark In Twenty-First Century Historical Fiction
Hilary Mantel’s new novel, ‘The Mirror and the Light,’ concludes her celebrated trilogy about Thomas Cromwell with another tome of thrilling insights into the human condition.
‘The Testaments’ Further Explores Margaret Atwood’s Feminist Dystopia
In Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments,’ she expands upon the dystopian vision created by ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ and reveals political complexities that many ardent fans overlook.
Why A Truly Good Education Must Be More Than Job Prep
An obsession with utility demeans students and badly parodies the sacred exchange that happens in a classroom where a person shares something he loves with someone else.
The Untold Story Of T.S. Eliot And A Legendary Book Publisher
In ‘Faber & Faber: The Untold Story,’ Toby Faber tells the engaging history of his grandfather’s literary institution and dishes on many of its more notable authors.
My Childhood Schooling In The Soviet Union Was Better Than My Kids’ In U.S. Public Schools Today
Ask the people in our immigrant community why we moved to the United States, and hear again and again: ‘For the kids.’ Yet here we are, failing them in one of the most important ways.
Bret Stephens Touts Willa Cather As ‘Perfect Antidote’ To Trump. NYT Readers Shred Them Both
Dozens of leftist readers wrote to accuse Willa Cather of anti-Semitism, nativist bias, white-washing Indian genocide, and other crimes against humanity.
A Literary Exploration Of The Differences Between Man And Machine
Venerable British novelist Ian McEwan’s latest, ‘Machines Like Me,’ imagines an intriguing, but ultimately disappointing, past where Alan Turing never died and humanity is forced to confront advanced artificial intelligence in the 1980s.
How To Turn Your Children Into Readers For Life
‘Raising readers’ isn’t just another checkbox on some list of things to feel like good parents. It is instead an opportunity to free us from the tyranny of artificial parenting pressures.
Why Herman Wouk’s ‘War’ Novels Deserve Remembrance Today
The best way to remember—or discover—the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk may be his World War II epics.
Inside The Life And Christianity Of Legendary Sci-Fi Author Gene Wolfe
The legendary sci-fi author’s reputation has waned in recent years, but his death is a chance to reevaluate Wolfe’s remarkable world-building and singular talent.
Paul Hollander Explained Why Smart People Support Totalitarianism
The chronicler of the foolish, utopian ways of thinking that ail so many intellectual elites will be sorely missed by many.
Make 2019 The Year You Read ‘The Iliad’ With Your Kids
There are many reasons you should push this amazing text to the top of your family reading list in 2019.
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