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Dr. Jonathan Buttaci on the Art and Act of Knowing—and What That Means for Teaching

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Dr. Paul Shrimpton on Newman and his Idea of a School

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Alvaro de Vicente on Boy-Girl Socializing: Fostering Healthy Peer Groups

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Austin Hatch and Tom Steenson on True Convivium: Friendship with Fellow Teachers

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Michael Moynihan on Reducing Anxiety through the Meaning of Work

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Eric Heil on an Introduction to Natural History: Beauty, Science, and Philosophy for Boys

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Dr. Joseph Lanzilotti on Theology and Masculinity: Men's Creation and Calling

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Mark Grannis on Knowing How to Know: Law School and Other Professional Discernments

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Alvaro de Vicente on Crafting and Sharing a School Vision

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Dr. Matthew Mehan on Compiling an American Book of Fables

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Mark Ryland on Pragmatic Hope: Understanding AI and the New Economy

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Andrew Cantarutti on The Walled Garden: Critical Considerations for Classroom AI

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Clare Morell on A Humane Way of Life: The Research Behind Home Tech Decisions

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Robert Greving on an Apostolate of Courtesy: Social Graces and Civilization

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Dr. Matthew Spalding on Teaching the American Founding after 250 Years

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Colin Gleason on "Tell me the truth!" Leading Boys to Integrity

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Dave Maxham on Automaticity: Where 'Rote' Fits into the Liberal Arts

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Andrew Reed on Parenting through the Middle School Doldrums

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Andrew Cantarutti on Classroom Habits of Attention in the Age of AI

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Tom Steenson on the Teacher's Voice

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Alvaro de Vicente on the Role of Parents in the Conspiracy for the Good

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Dr. Stephen Smith on Educating Leaders with Thomas More

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Bill Dardis on Teaching Religion with Multiple Faiths in the Room

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Arthur Brooks on Your Calling and How to Find It

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Kevin Twomey on Frantic Families: Three Questions for a More Intentional Life

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Colin Gleason on the Father as Protector

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Tom Cox on an Epic Education: Tolkien in the Middle School

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Michael Moynihan on the Father as a Guide to the World

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Fr. Thomas Joseph White on Reading into Reality: What Is Intellectual Formation?

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Fr. Carter Griffin and Alvaro de Vicente on Vocational Discernment in an Age of Infinite Options

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Colin Gleason on Manners: The "ABCs" of Virtue

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Dan Lively on Formation for the Body: Lifelong Functional Fitness

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Dr. Jason Baxter on Why Beauty Matters: The Postmodern Pressure on Our Interior Life

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Tom Cox on Being a Faculty of Friends: Making Schools into Communities

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Dr. Melissa Moschella on Parental Rights in Natural and Constitutional Law

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Michael Moynihan on A Whole Education: Teaching Persons, Not Just Subjects

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Alvaro de Vicente on Parental Expectations: Being Both Perfect and Anxious for Nothing

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Alvaro de Vicente on Conversation: The Medium of Mentoring

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Kyle Blackmer on Building Parent-Teacher Rapport

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Fr. John Nepil on Theology at Elevation

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Andrew Reed on Developing Your Son's Will

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Michael Moynihan and Austin Hatch on Teaching the History of our Strange New World

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Dr. Matthew Mehan on Imagination: The Raw Material for Thinking

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Colin Gleason on Discipline: Giving Room for Good Things

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Chris Vander Woude on Ordinary and Heroic Virtue

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Alvaro de Vicente on Enjoying Our Children and Why It's Important

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Dr. Joseph Lazilotti on the Sex Difference in Education

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Clare Morell on the Tech Exit: How Smartphones Undermine Our Parenting—and How to Reverse Course

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Dr. Matthew Tapie and Dr. Lionel Yaceczko on Parental Authority and Thomas Aquinas

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Christopher Scalia on Finding Your Next Novel

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Joe Cardenas on A Change of Soul: Reimagining the Purpose of Vacation

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Alvaro de Vicente on Choosing a College—Or Not

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Fr. Gregory Pine on Human Reason: An Attentiveness to Reality

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Colin Gleason on Teaching Our Sons to Pray: Opportunities and Options

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Alvaro de Vicente on Reframing Our Desire to Be Liked

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Tom Royals on Offering It Up: A Lenten Reflection

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Tom Steenson's Parent-Teacher Conference for the Everyman

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Adam Taylor on Boys' Education and the 'Medieval Model'

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Fr. Carter Griffin on Forming Families, Forming Saints

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Austin Hatch on Adler's Modes of Teaching

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Tom Cox on Telling a Great Story in History Class

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Alvaro de Vicente on Dumb Phones, Feature Phones, and the New Tech Landscape

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Dr. Benjamin Storey on American Restlessness

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John Cuddeback on Teaching Men

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Colin Gleason on Listening to Our Boys

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Jimmy Callahan on the Man Your History Class Is Missing

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Dr. Peter Kilpatrick on the Idea of a Catholic University

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Joe Cardenas and Nate Gadiano on Living Simplicity

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Jason Baxter on Loving Modernity as a Medievalist

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Colin Gleason on Unanxious Leadership

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Joe Breslin on What Fiction Is For

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Dale Ahlquist on G. K. Chesterton

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Alvaro de Vicente on the Vocation of Fatherhood

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Dr. George Harne on Receiving Beauty

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Dr. Jeremy Beer on Charitable Giving and the Quest for Belonging

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Dr. Andrew Abela on Superhabits

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Alvaro de Vicente on Forming Loyal Men in a Culture of Sentimentalism

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Bishop Erik Varden on Man and Masculinity

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Keeping the Good In: The Voices Our Sons Hear

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The Virtue of Studiousness

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On Teaching Love

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The Ritual of Reading in the Classroom

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Restoring the Lord's Day

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Advice for the College Launch

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The Formation of a Teacher

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Forming Others: What Mentoring Can and Can't Be

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Anthropological Foundations of Mentoring

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On Home as Social Hub: The Importance of Hosting Our Sons and Their Friends

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Dangerously Good: Forming Great Souls

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Is His Free Time Freeing?

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Dr. Peter Kilpatrick of CUA: Considerations for College-Bound Students

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Alvaro de Vicente on Freedom and Obedience

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Dr. Kevin Majeres on Anxious Generation and Bad Therapy

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Immersive Language Instruction: On the Polis Method

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Fr. Carter Griffin: Magnanimity and the Great Souled Man

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Michael Moynihan on Freedom in Education

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Alexandre Havard on Free Hearts and Magnanimity

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Chris McKenna on Parenting in a Digital Age

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R. J. Snell on Hope and Despair

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Teaching Sovereign Knowers