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Please to have a new essay out The Dispatch, discussing the huge pressures put on kids in many "high-achieving" schools and why we've chosen to homeschool instead.

Finding me at work in the garden, my son asks, "Which is most profitable to you hour for hour: writing, editing, or gardening?" "Well. I can tell you which one it isn't." "Why putter around in the dirt, then? The store has tomatoes." Time for a talk about the value of leisure.

Postliberal Catholics and techno-optimists have come together under the MAGA populist banner. But there are some deep tensions within that alliance. Very interesting piece from Kevin Vallier Law & Liberty: lawliberty.org/an-unstable-fu…

This has been a problem for a long time, mainly because non-Western Christian persecution doesn't fit any narrative that resonates with Americans. Serious question then: what would that narrative be? Madeleine Kearns thefp.com/p/christians-s…

I use and value AI for certain things, but it's creepy how it keeps offering to "help me write." Stop stalking me, robobrain.

“So Iraq is looking a little less threatening, but Indonesia has come from behind and turned into a real menace.” Were you thinking geopolitics? No, that’s just my kids talking about their epic struggle for dominance in the realm of online chess.

Paddled 8 miles today with my Dad and my kids, through Minnesota's Boundary Waters. Remarkable place. Hope it'll be the first of many visits.

Happy Birthday, America! I’m right fond of you.

Thoughts on the relationship between liberalism and nationalism, as seen through the lens of 19th century politics. From Samuel Gregg Law & Liberty: lawliberty.org/towards-a-libe…

When a society embraces reductive views of human beings, terrible atrocities can follow. John-Paul Heil explains, through the lens of Dietrich von Hildebrand's newly-discovered work on this subject, Law & Liberty: lawliberty.org/book-review/ev…

Writing is, of course, hard. But… editing is easy? I suppose, as with most things, it can be pretty easy if you don’t care much about the result. (The same is true of writing!) Good editing is much harder than most people suppose, and definitely not something “anyone can do.”

A beautiful piece from Lee Oser on what it will take to enable our kids to read. From Law & Liberty: lawliberty.org/why-cant-the-k…

Who counts as a homemaker? Do we need more? I warmly recommend this book Fairer Disputations to all with interest in homes, and why & how we make them. Elizabeth Grace Matthew Nadya Williams Helen Roy Louise Perry Mary Harrington Ivana Greco Leah Libresco Sargeant. fairerdisputations.org/thoughtful-hom…

"The same forces driving Fitzgerald’s novel—the condescension of elites and the mix of envy and resentment it provokes—continue to shape America’s social life and politics, dominated for the past decade by an improbable populist billionaire." Law & Liberty lawliberty.org/gatsbys-tragic…

Rachel Lu Plus, this week's must-reads from around the web, from Julie Bindel, Patrick T. Brown, Jo Bartosch, Ivana Greco, Poppy Sowerby, Stephanie H. Murray, & more: fairerdisputations.org/the-week-71120…

This essay Fairer Disputations by Rachel Lu is filled with such honesty, nuance, and thoughtfulness. Highly thought-provoking and evocative for me, as both someone who thinks about these issues professionally and is, indeed, a homemaker (professionally?) Awesome read.

Here’s a fun “driving to Confession on a Saturday evening” exercise. Imagine Flannery O’Connor wrote you into a short story. How would you come out?

Need a Sunday read? Start w/Rachel Lu on homemaking: fairerdisputations.org/thoughtful-hom… Then, check out these must-reads from around the web: fairerdisputations.org/the-week-71120…

"I am confident that Boyle would agree with me that the most important thing by far is not our precise division of labor...but rather the effort to ensure that the people we love have places where they are genuinely seen and valued." Rachel Lu fairerdisputations.org/thoughtful-hom…

The 10yo comes to me with a confession. He read ahead a bit in our nightly read-aloud. Too much suspense, couldn’t stand it. We’re presently reading Pride and Prejudice.