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Classical Ideals
A blog about great art and literature, how we can read it, how we can let it transform us. Re-educate yourself, and equip yourself to better educate your children.
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Elsa was Evil: the Inverted Morality of Frozen
How to protect your children from the Moral Terrorism of modern stories
How Women Become Evil
The Lindsey Clancy Murders and MomSlop Propaganda
Being More Human
On Josef Pieper's Definition of Virtue
What “The Secret Garden” can teach you about True Health
Fresh Air, Boredom, Laughter and Currant Buns
Lowercase "i" poetry is stealing your life-force
You are not a victim of your own life
The Political Extremism of Raising Healthy Children
The Ordinary, Good Childhood, is a political project
The Case for Sheltering a Child from Knowledge of Wickedness
Notes from Plato’s Republic Book III on Stories for Children
On the Truths and Lies of "Natural Beauty"
In the Odyssey and in the Iliad, we see Athena and Aphrodite frequently interfering in the lives of mortals to make them taller, more muscular, their skin shine brightly, their hair longer and more luscious, their faces younger.
Plato’s Republic Book II: What would you do if you could get away with it?
In which not a single train of thought was ridden to the end
Kiki’s Delivery Service and the Good Female Protagonist
Female-centred stories don't need to be terrible