Edwin Benson 
A court recently sentenced a homeschooling couple with two daughters, ages 15 and 11, to 50 days in prison. The charge – intellectual neglect – is so absurd that it could almost have been invented just to convict this couple. This accusation appears particularly absurd since the couple’s daughters are fluent in … Read more
If there is one lesson to be learned from the war in Iran, it is that supply chains are vulnerable and fragile. Certain geographical chokepoints exist that can bring down the world economy. The Strait of Hormuz suddenly became a concern for everyone. To make matters worse, the modern economy is based … Read more
This article is the fourth part of a series about Purgatory, a topic that is rarely discussed today. A knowledge of Purgatory is essential if souls are to avoid the pains of this place of expiation. The previous article can be found here. * * * In Chapter Five of … Read more
A recent article in The Texas Tribune carried a message to all concerned about sexual transitions generally, and to America’s children, in particular. Sanity Returns to a Great Hospital “Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston has to create a detransition clinic for transgender patients later this year and keep a list of ‘potential’ … Read more
The Barack Obama Presidential Center will open to the public on June 19 and is already surrounded by controversy, primarily for its appearance. In fact, controversy has been a constant companion of the project since its announcement. To call it stark is an understatement. In fact, one admittedly right-wing source referred to … Read more
The FBI is warning parents that their children could be lured into terrorist gangs. All this might take place without leaving their homes. Usually, tales of recruiting into violent terrorist gangs do not call to mind middle-class children playing video games after days in their suburban junior high schools. However, recruiters are … Read more
In a single article, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) managed to cover two very different bankruptcies—one being that of Muslim culture and the other being of any sense of morality the vaunted state-run British media giant may once have had. A Destitute City Much of the article focused on seven men who … Read more
The lure of the perfect teaching machine is great. The reality is always disappointing. Machines simply cannot adapt to students’ needs as rapidly or smoothly as a competent and caring teacher. Tales from the Classroom Consider this parent’s lament. “When my son was in first grade, he came home from school in … Read more
The following article is the second of a four-part series that features the life of Augustus Pugin, the renown English Catholic architect of the nineteenth century. The first article is found here. Long before Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin accepted the tenets of Catholicism, he absorbed its culture. Like many young men, Pugin … Read more
On April 22, 2026, Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma signed Senate Bill 1481, requiring that all elementary school students (grades kindergarten through five) receive at least forty minutes of recess daily over and above the amount of time they spend in Physical Education. The new law has two other requirements. “Recess shall … Read more