This will be a short training outline of the film “The Battle of Algiers” which I offered here a few days ago. It should also open your eyes to some modern beliefs about Islam that were not necessarily so the…
Category: Education
Deplorables, The Return of the Taught
Among the Baby Boomer generation, there must be two (2) major missions we agree to undertake before we pass out of sight. We are all that remains of “the taught”, so practically speaking we have until our generation passes away to…
Teaching History to C-Students, not just A-Students; a Note to Conservatives
Yesterday I saw a tweet by Mark Levin, plugging an August 19, 2019 article at The Federalist by Josh Lawson, “8 Back-to-School Books to Protect Students from Leftist Brainwashing”. Other than throwing in an updated version of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and perhaps…
American Theology and “The Patriots History of the United States”
There is an American theology and has always has been. And some very fine historians have chronicled it. Samuel Eliot Morison covered the years of my education in the 1960s. American History and Government were required courses by state boards…
Spoiled Little Parents, and Their Chil’rens
(From a book written in 1947 describing children of privilege when there were far fewer of them; a description of French children of plantation owners around 1800 in the Caribbean: “There isn’t one who hasn’t the temper of the devil,…