Latest by Jeff Minick in Chronicles

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  Society & Culture

  October 1, 2019

  Hope in Little Platoons

  For 26 years, I taught hundreds of home-educated students, including my own children. My checkered teaching career also includes a semester in a university, two years at a prison, and two years in a public high school. During my last 15 years of that teaching, I conducted seminars for homeschoolers in Asheville, North Carolina, offering instruction in literature, composition, history, and Latin.

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  Society & Culture

  April 7, 2019

  Happy Warriors

  For decades, conservative commentators and writers have told anyone who would listen that America is going to hell in a handbag. James Burnham’s Suicide of the West, John Derbyshire’s We Are Doomed, Pat Buchanan’s Suicide of a Superpower, Mark Steyn’s After America, and thousands of other books and articles have revealed the damage done to our culture and our republic by the left.

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  Society & Culture

  August 12, 2018

  In Praise of Cultural Appropriation

  Recently I read of a 67-year-old woman who wanted to run in a marathon. She had never run for exercise in her life, but her desire and passion led her to put on a pair of sneakers, leave the house, and walk a mile.

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  Society & Culture

  December 2, 2017

  The Pronouns of Bedlam

  Jordan Peterson and others like him understand in their bones one great truth: Language matters. The names by which we call people, places, and things are vital both to our perceptions of reality and to reality itself.

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  Correspondence

  January 8, 2017

  Blood From a Stone: Observations of a Serf

  Like most conservatives, I believe that the federal government is out of control in its spending and its regulations. Like most conservatives, I believe the chief concerns of that government to be the defense of the United States, international negotiations, and certain interior measures regarding interstate trade and travel.

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Latest by Jeff Minick in ITO

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  March 30, 2020

  Stimulus Goodies, Good Souls, and Grifters

  An insider describes how people are responding to the coronavirus stimulus package.

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  March 27, 2020

  Love in a Time of Coronavirus

  The ugliness or beauty of language can have a profound impact on society, as we see with the debate over what to call the coronavirus.

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  March 24, 2020

  COVID-19 and the Disappearance of SJWs

  Where'd all the social justice protesters and complaints go?

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  March 23, 2020

  Toilet Paper Derangement Syndrome: It’s Here and It’s Real

  If you're worried about becoming a victim of the Toilet Paper Apocalypse, don't worry, the U.S. has survived such "shortages" before.

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  March 19, 2020

  Will We Know If Our Precautions Kept Coronavirus at Bay? Here’s One Simple Test

  A wealth of government data will help us to understand if all these restrictions actually prevented the spread of the coronavirus.

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