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Why In-Person Education Is Essential
Just a few decades ago, any educational environment outside the context of a community of persons might be labeled a “correspondence course,” or an “online educational program.” If one’s educational experience were anything other than on-location, a qualifier would be required. Even with the more recent explosion of online graduate programs, it was not until the lockdowns of 2020 that we began to see education in the more traditional sense requiring its own qualifier: “in-person.”
St. Thomas Aquinas on the Five Remedies for Sorrow
No matter how good we have it, no matter how wealthy we are, or how many good friends we have, or even how holy we are, all of us will experience sorrow in this life.
The Godless Roots of Socialism
What is it about socialism? It seems that the arguments against it, no matter how finely tuned, have to be made over and again in every generation. It pops up in one nation faster than it can be put down in another. The sons of men who fought against it frequently grow up to fight for it. In some places it is the fashion of the youth, in others, the fashion of the old.