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Essays on classical education, writing, and culture.

"The Bloody Swords Clashed": Getting Boys to Love Writing

Boys and girls differ in how they respond to reading and writing — here's how to reverse the trend and help boys embrace writing as a bold, masculine pursuit.

The Erasure of Thought: AI, Composition, and Your Students

Chatbots threaten to upend English composition and erase human creativity itself — here's why the struggle of writing is worth defending.

From the Ancient World to the Modern Imagination: The Progymnasmata

An ancient way of learning to write persists in every English class to this day — we just know it by other names.

The Downwind Generation

A reflection on growing up in the fallout of a culture saturated by pornography, and what families, schools, and churches can do about it.

Freak Street

The Land of Make-Believe has been abandoned to its very real vices — a walk down Hollywood Boulevard on a Saturday night.