Restoring Mayberry

In our modern world, most of us have joked that school never taught us anything we needed to know – algebra, but not how to do taxes. How tr...

Almost no one enjoys the cold, yet most people in the world live where it is cold for part of the year – even subtropical or Mediterranean c...

  In movies blacksmiths look like WWF wrestlers, dramatically slamming white-hot metal with sledgehammers. When I took a blacksmithing cou...

  Milk is not only an amazing food, but can be made into many other foods as well – butter, ghee, kefir, yoghurt and thousands of kinds of c...

Most of us take for granted that we will spend most of our lives paying off other people that we paid to build our homes, yet until historic...

I'm delighted to report that the fantastic magazine Quillette has published my piece on classical education -- check it out.

  Every late summer the boglands and canal-banks of County Kildare erupt in creamy-yellow tufts of meadowsweet, filling the breeze with thei...

One of my first memories – I couldn’t have been more than four – was of fishing with my grandfather in a rowboat on a warm summer lake. We w...

 

  Every night I read the classics of Ancient Greece to my daughter, which you might think will be dull for a child. On the contrary: The...