Want to share Thanksgiving plans? I’ll start. Last year’s Thanksgiving was NOT a good one for me. Looking back, that was inevitable. My mother had died less than three weeks before, my father six months before that, and Thanksgiving was always their holiday. Although I’d done

Quick response: what do you instantly notice that these five new agency leaders all have in common?

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This is a hard piece to read. But I think it's important. I write about skepticism of expertise in my upcoming book THE GREAT SHADOW. The arrogance of doctors who refused to pay attention to women dying in childbirth: that was a huge smear on the medical profession, and although

Nice review from ShelfAwareness! Thanks for tagging me.

(You would think AI could at least get the title and author right, yes?)

The only thing more maddening than getting an AI-written pitch from a "book publicist" or "book club" is getting one for a novel written by...someone else.

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There are three massive problems with this opinion piece, currently being reposted by the U. S. Department of Education. No, four massive problems. No, more than that. Among the problems... I’ll just list the first four. 1) The assertion that “the classical education industry

If you’re a follower of my work, please consider pre-ordering my upcoming book The Great Shadow. This book really grew out of my narrative world history series for W. W. Norton (that would be The History of the Ancient World, The History of the Medieval World, The History of the

Happy Monday, all! Time for a general update, since I was MIA from this platform last week. I had an unusual amount of farm work to do (see obligatory cow picture following), and then Pete and I flew into LaGuardia and from there to Norfolk, Connecticut, so that I could speak at

WE MADE IT! Fingers and toes crossed for the return trip on Sunday (for which I also have backup train tickets!).

Welp, our RIC-LGA flight got cancelled. Have rebooked but also have backup train tickets. We're attending the memorial for my long-time editor on Saturday, and it's not a thing that can be rescheduled. Hello, Congress, how's it going? I'm watching my reps. An election is coming.

So in the past couple of weeks I have gotten a SCORE of pitches from a dozen book publicity companies, all hoping for my business. Each email highlights a particularly book of mine and tells me exactly what's so great about it. I've never seen such specific, carefully written,

And on another (I hope, less controversial) subject, here I am saying hello to the donkeys this morning. Athena and Thelonius, currently on guard duty in the duck pen, are always very glad to see me, in the hopes that breakfast will follow shortly...be sure to put on the sound!

Charles McNamara at Commonweal, about classical ideals and how they differ from the Turning Point model: This is so well put that I’m going to excerpt it here and link to the whole, with minimal commentary. ** Many people, including Charlie Kirk, have correctly diagnosed our

Great advice from the newsletter written by Sunday Times children's book reviewer, Nicollette Jones. (She's also recently done interesting pieces on C. S. Lewis, Brambly Hedge, and graphic novels--links at the end!) I've excerpted more of Jones's piece following the asterisks,

Public service announcement--the Orionid meteor showers peak tonight and tomorrow night! Go outside, if you can, and lie in some grass. https://t.co/yFijBfRLjw

Well, still haven't quite made it to the shower, but the animals are fed, the horses have been schooled, the urgent emails polished off, some writing completed, the pea soup and cheese bread underway for dinner, AND I VOTED. If you've got local elections coming up, don't forget

If you are a Trump supporter, I really want to know (HONESTLY, I want to know) how you feel about the President representing himself in this way.

Just reading through this list and seeing all those wonderful, familiar book covers made me feel all warm and wistful inside. But I also particularly enjoyed the recommendations from 2010 on, when my own children were past the picture book stage. I hope you find something here