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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination Of Your Child
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination Of Your Child © 2010 Anthony Esolen 256 pages In the spirit of The Screwtape Letters comes this, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination Of Your Child. Anthony Esolen opens by observing that the … Continue reading
Out of the Ashes
Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture © 2017 Anthony Esolen 256 pages Some things, like a Roman bridge, can last for millennia through the virtue of their design, the simplicity of their use, and the inherent strength of their … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Catholicism, Christian humanism, Christianity, education, localism, marriage and family, Of Boys and Men, participation, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, sacramental living, social criticism, Society and Culture
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The Simple Living Guide
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living© 1997 Janet Luhrs444 pages Life distracts easily and passes by without being noticed. The Simple Living Guide is written as an antidote, one which both prompts people to … Continue reading
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Tagged family, food, food and drink, marriage and family, mindfulness, parenting, sacramental living, simple living
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What’s Wrong with the World
What’s Wrong with the World© 1910 G. K. Chesterton200 pages What’s wrong with the world? Too many people are proposing answers to the wrong questions. What’s Wrong is a curious collection of thoughts, voiced at the turn of the 20thcentury, … Continue reading
The Working Poor
The Working Poor: Invisible in America© 2004 David Shipler352 pages “Like my daddy used to say — ‘Son, life’s hell to pay for when you’re poor — cause always just outside the door’s another Hard Time.’” (Jerry Reed) The … Continue reading
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Tagged education, family, housing, labor, marriage and family, poverty, social criticism, Society and Culture
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The Disappearance of Childhood
The Disappearance of Childhood©1982 Neil Postman177 pages Television is killing your children — conceptually. In 1985, Neil Postman penned Amusing Ourselves to Death, in which he, building off of the lesson in Technopoly that technology changes our culture without our knowledge, … Continue reading
Save the Males
Save the Males: Why Men Matter and Why Women Should Care© 2008 Kathleen Parker215 pages It’s not a man’s world any more. Far from it, Kathleen Parker writes: in America, men have not only been dethroned but imprisoned by a … Continue reading
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Tagged marriage and family, men, military, parenting, sexuality, social criticism, Society and Culture
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The Unschooling Handbook
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom© 1998 Marry Griffith240 pages What does it mean to educate a child? In the United States, schooling is dominated by standards, by regular exams that force educators … Continue reading
French Kids Eat Everything
French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters© 2012 Karen Le Billon 320 pages Upon landing in France to spend a year with her … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food and drink, France, manners and morals, marriage and family, parenting
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Crunchy Cons
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of counterculture conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican party) © 2006 Rod Dreher 272 pages … Continue reading
