Apparently The Story of Western Science offers readers an unusually good chance of winning at their local pub’s Trivia Night. Or, you know, Jeopardy. ” This easy-to-read, incredibly [...]
Yesterday, I didn’t know what to say, so I said nothing. Today I do. This country has got to change its mind about guns. I grew up around guns and among hunters. I learned to shoot squirrels at [...]
I’m spending most of today on planes, heading to Seattle and then SoCal for book business. Which puts me in the mood for something random. Â When I was young, my mother used to take us to [...]
When I was a home schooled student, thirty years ago, no one really argued about what it “meant” to be a home educator: You either were, or you weren’t. This is no longer the [...]
Ten years ago, I gave this lecture after Princeton University Press released  The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America.  For several years afterwards, I got [...]
This week, the Wall Street Journal published a review-essay of Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education and a book I haven’t read yet, Bryan Caplan’s The [...]
Today’s publication day for Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education! So I’ll just be deworming sheep and then heading to the office. When your first book [...]
I’m happy to announce that the fourth edition of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home now has a publication date (September 13, 2016) and is available for [...]
Dear readers of this infrequently updated blog, I’ll be blogging semi-regularly at Psychology Today about personalities of the past. Check it out here: Welcome to the Past If you’ve [...]
Update: Norton has changed the title to The Story of Western Science. I had no control over this decision and am a little worried about what it will do to the book…but that’s what [...]
