Essays

• Yes, you should hover! Why kids in school need helicopter parents

  January 9, 2018 - Salon.com

• Favorite Reads of 2017

  December 28, 2017 - Comment

• A Form of Godliness

  June 1, 2017 - Comment

• Bias, Compromise, and Teaching History to Children

  May 28, 2017

• Five Events that Began the Renaissance (and Ended the Middle Ages)

  May 28, 2017

• Maturity & The Real Child, Part I: The Problem With Ages and Grades

  January 18, 2017

• Maturity & The Real Child, Part II: Strategies for the Age-Grade Mismatch

  January 18, 2017

• About The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  June 24, 2016

• Combining History and Literature: Why and How

  June 24, 2016

• A World Without Shadows

  September 1, 2015 - Books and Culture

• The Teacher’s Dilemma: Reflections on History, Children, and the Inevitability of Compromise

  September 4, 2014 - Comment magazine

• Fancy’s Children

  September 6, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal

• Talking About Real Marriage

  January 1, 2012 - Books and Culture

• Undercover Among the Evangelicals

  July 1, 2010 - Books and Culture

• What is Classical Education?

  June 3, 2009

• Charlotte Mason Education

  June 3, 2009 - WellTrainedMind.com

• On Slippery Slopes, the Blogosphere, and (oh, yes) Women

  January 1, 2007 - Books and Culture

• Messy Revelation: Why Paul Would Have Flunked Hermeneutics

  May 1, 2006 - Books and Culture

• No Exit? (“Whiteness,” Part II)

  November 1, 2000 - Books and Culture

• “Whiteness” (Part I)

  September 1, 2000 - Books and Culture

• Dodging the Homeschool Stereotype

  August 31, 2000 - Beliefnet.com

• God and Woman at Harvard

  August 22, 2000 - The Best Christian Writing 2000, ed. John Wilson, (Harper, San Francisco, 2000) in print only

• Christian Fiction Gets Real

  April 24, 2000 - Christianity Today

• The Book Report: Peretti Out-Grishams Grisham

  August 6, 1999 - Books and Culture

• Corporate-sponsored Spontaneity: The Marketing of Alanis Morissette

  May 1, 1999 - Books and Culture

• Books: Oprah’s Misery Index

  December 7, 1998 - Christianity Today

• No One Knows Best

  November 1, 1998 - Books and Culture

• The Myth of a Better Prayer Life

  April 27, 1998 - Christianity Today

• Books: A Paper Doll King David

  June 16, 1997 - Christianity Today

• I Don’t Talk About My Children at Work

  May 1, 1997 - Books and Culture

• Stephen King’s Tragic Kingdom

  March 1, 1997 - Books and Culture