September 2006
Too Much Monkey Business: Inherit the Agitprop
Watching a disaster or beholding a disintegration is inherently destructive, but there is also an element of morbid fascination. Might there be, as well, a redemptive element in tracking the entropic parabola of the great fall of yet another Humpty Dumpty?
The Supreme Court, Globalization, and the Teaching of Religion
Public figures talk about globalization as if it were the Rapture. We are told that, unlike Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, we live in an era of international trade; so these days, we must worry more about what the world thinks and does. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told the Southern Center for International Studies, “No institution of government can afford any longer to ignore the rest of the world. One-third of our gross domestic product is internationally derived.”
Educated at Home
“Let us eat and make merry.”
—Luke 15:23
“This has been a happy time: I’ve spent all day with my family, eaten a fine meal, played with my grandchildren, been to a baptism, and I went to communion.” These were the words of my uncle—with their telling rhetorical climax—on leaving his sister’s house in Eastern North Carolina one Sunday evening last fall. I was back visiting, and the family had converged for the baptism of a little “first cousin once-removed.” The baptism had been held on a communion Sunday at the Methodist church. After, there was a reception at home, with the preacher and his wife, friends, and the usual compliment of children running around the yard on all four sides of the house, messing up their good clothes.
MONKEYS IN THE CLASSROOM: September 2006
PERSPECTIVE
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
by Thomas Fleming
The right to an opinion.
VIEWS
Educated at Home
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
The pleasure that comes with struggle.
The Supreme Court, Globalization, and the Teaching of Religion
by Tom Landess
Shaping society.
Education to the Rescue
by Troy Kickler
How Radical Republican teachers reconstructed the South.
Too Much Monkey Business
by James O. Tate
Inherit the agitprop.
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