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Dana Gioia is one of the world’s greatest living poets. He’s been writing for ~55 years, and this 3-hour interview is all about his approach to writing. Some lessons: 1. What is poetry? Here’s a definition: “Poetry is a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.”

1870s schoolhouse. Anchored desks and chairs. Teacher-facing rows and columns. Pastor’s perch. Student booklet. Minimal decoration. Mini-chalkboards. Built-in chalk holder. Natural light. Not a screen in sight. Absolutely primed for high quality explicit instruction. 😍

Tim Carney with some insights on how school systems went woke (why is the left's ground game so much better than the right's?): washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltwa…

Brad Lingo of Grove City College on what it's like not to take Federal money, on today's podcast: firstthings.com/the-fed-and-th…

T.S.Eliot: “If Christianity is not to survive, I shall not mind if the texts of the Latin and Greek languages became more obscure and forgotten than those of the language of the Etruscans.”

Exposure to a foreign language should begin by 7th grade.

NEW: Universities across the U.S. have embraced diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring. Administrators monitor the demographics of applicants throughout the process, with consequences for searches that don't "pass muster"—according to a trove of records I've obtained. 🧵

The school I teach at, which I helped found almost 30 years ago, is one of the top schools in our state's largest school district. But I appreciate the advice.

Yes, the New York Times is a direct peer competitor and, regrettably, I lost this round, but there will be more opportunities for competition in the future. May the best outlet win.

This is an important development in the ideological lock on higher education: theepochtimes.com/opinion/florid…

Stanley Kurtz on the Mahmoud decision: nationalreview.com/corner/did-sco…

The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education lays out a plan for reforming America's universities that is targeted, popular, and ready to go. We call on President Trump to issue an executive order making these principles a precondition for federal funding. Let's get it done.

Chris Scalia on great novels conservatives would love, on today's podcast: firstthings.com/novelcon/

Teachers: make this the year you put up a fight over cell phones in the classroom. Arm yourself with the data. Steel your spine for the pushback. Just do it. It is clear they are a scourge to education, so don’t participate in the farce of letting them in the class.

It was too successful—that was the problem. In no zone of America does envy run deeper than academe.

University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my followers here. If you are inclined to support these students in their goal to recover what was lost, you can sign here: change.org/Protect_UTulsa…

This is precisely the kind of partisan, juvenile slop that led to Colbert's unprofitability and, in time, will lead Jon Stewart to the same place. "Yelling expletives at Trump with a gospel choir" is not clever or entertaining. It's garbage.

Alan Dershowitz on how far the state may go to protect its citizens, on today's podcast: firstthings.com/how-to-prevent…

Lo, The Free Press has published my account of the Chartres pilgrimage in June. I’m a cultural pessimist, but boy did these young believers give me hope! Read on… thefp.com/p/on-pilgrimag…

Yoram Hazony on the state of nationalism in 2025, on today's podcast: firstthings.com/nationalism-wi…