Coming February 2026. A readable introduction to important thinkers, a good option for class use, or a helpful volume to inform your own teaching.
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It's impossible to explain to a Yank what Cheddar cheese is like. Their only reference point is liquidised knob cheese in a spray can. We should be mindful of their limitations.
I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.
We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.
On 15 June 1986, in the Azteca Stadium, Manuel Negrete painted a masterpiece of football. Against the selection of Bulgaria, he performed a spectacular scissor-kick in the air that Fifa immortalised as one of the most beautiful goals ever scored.
I hate soccer and couldn’t care less about the World Cup but I am actually totally down for these videos of normal non-internet poisoned Americans being like “we love the nice Algerians who chose our town!”
Steve Hayward quoting Gordon Wood:
“To be an American is not to be someone, but to believe in something. That is why we are at heart a credo nation, and that is why the 250th anniversary of the Declaration next year is so important.”
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Do you know this bird? He's a Lazuli Bunting. I chased him around the open space yesterday, hoping he'd land on a decent perch. He finally did and was very cooperative for a few minutes.
Folks I admire are Into the Puritans. I'm not sure what to make of it. Owen, for example, so often seems to have an odor of obligation. There is law even when there is gospel. Am I misunderstanding something?
How do you teach the Declaration in the 21st century? How do you move students toward genuine engagement with the text?
In his TVC debut, @PhilipDBunn shares an approach that brings this founding document into today's classroom.
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