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How can we ensure that we are quality conversationalists making a positive difference with our words? The Roman philosopher Cicero offers some thoughts on the issue.

Human connections, a code of virtue, an upbeat take on the future, and learning early on the value of grit and fortitude: these were some of the tools that served our ancestors instead of therapists and psychotropic drugs. 

One does not need any special qualifications to begin to reintegrate family, community, craftsmanship, economics, education, art, faith, and politics in one’s own backyard. One need only be human.

The growing interest in Catholicism among young men should be taken seriously. In many cases, it reflects a desire for historical rootedness, a more embodied faith, and a tradition that feels connected across time.

Rather than offer the normal platitudes for Mother’s Day – which can certainly be well and good – I give you the following speech of one of the famous mothers in literature: Marmee, mother to the four “Little Women,” Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.

Even ghosts, it turns out, can do battle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Just ask George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the millions of others who built this country and still speak to us from beyond the grave.

Art has a habit of showing a mirror to society while also shaping it. Not every mirror is clear and not every reflection should be imitated. However, the image is often instructive.

When we remove the basic components of a good story – faith, love, heroism, and class differences – because they no longer fit with a politically correct view of the world, we’re left with boredom and apathy.

The boys are alright. The girls are all left. 

However messy their lives, the royals represent ages-old traditions, something which many are longing for today.

I am convinced that our economic system ought to be built on actual relationships amongst people who know one another's names, not vast and inscrutable systems where customers are just numbers, sellers are faceless, and “old-timers” can be fired at the drop of a hat.

The imagery of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” especially “Inferno,” has captivated readers for hundreds of years. Even though it is set in the afterlife, its primary value is found in the wisdom it provides for readers willing to contemplate it in this life.

Free markets are only a good idea insofar as the people participating in them love one another. In other words, free markets function best when grace undergirds economics.

A child needs a mother and a father. Call me old-fashioned if you like, but there it is.    

It’s one thing to disagree with a neighbor’s politics or moral code. It’s another thing to regard your general fellow citizens' morality and ethics as “somewhat bad” or “very bad.” But that’s what more than half of Americans did.

In order to encourage young people to have kids, we must address the real reason they aren’t having them. They’re simply not sure if they’re valuable – economically, socially, or relationally. 

The turn toward vinyl, CDs, and film photography, for example, isn’t watermarks of cultural regression. In fact, it’s the opposite. It’s a sign that our culture – at least artistically – hungers for something more authentic. More imperfect. More human.

The story of the microschool is the story of how something old can be made new again, and how the adaptation of a traditional model to a modern circumstance can provide a solution to contemporary problems.

The instincts of these men appeared to me so natural that I would have never otherwise noticed them. In situations like this shooting, what else would a man do? 

Although some criticized Erika Kirk's dress at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the rest of us couldn’t be more on point than to copy the cost, color, and modesty cues that Kirk displayed while there.

The slow ascent of technological progress has soared upward. We could only have such amazing results because of our infinite capacity for curiosity about the world. If this is true, then why could Thomas Aquinas call curiosity a sin?

A wise person once told us that laying down our lives for others is a sign of the greatest love. Perhaps it is that reason alone why Shrier finds so much more life purpose in these things than in “marching lockstep” and “obeying the algorithm.”

The storms may come, but we don’t have to be the ones salting the clouds.

AI education requires a mechanistic view of man. It outsources human tasks of teaching, guiding, conversing, and correcting to a non-human entity, thus treating the student as a machine for knowledge accumulation rather than a creature needing formation and direction. 

A man who refuses to examine his life should not be surprised by what it becomes.

Our young people are capable of much more than we give them credit. Like generations of students before them, they can be challenged to push themselves in the classroom, as I did when teaching, yet all too often teachers, parents, and other adults look to ease the way of these students rather than encouraging them to study hard and overcome obstacles. 

When you get married you are choosing who will form your identity until death parts you. Holding on to an old identity through all of that is a fool’s errand.