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It was soothing just to hold this beautiful book. I haven’t felt embraced by a tale like this since Grahame’s The Wind and the Willows. As Malcolm writes, “The Holy Grail may come to us on any Sabbath Day.” @malcolmguite

“Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing.” C.S. Lewis - That Hideous Strength

This is a wonderful event! Incredible Lewis scholars in beautiful Belfast. Be there or be square!

Regent Law welcomes Gregory F. Jacob as Senior Associate Dean and Associate Professor and Hester M. Peirce as Associate Professor, adding two nationally respected legal leaders with rare experience to its faculty. Read more: regent.edu/news/regent-la…

Coach- we need your voice next Saturday in Charlottesville to cheer on the 🍊!!! You’re a part of the Cuse family now brother!

Hang it in the Louvre!

@obvious_shirts “Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old they shall not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

A+ Husbanding. A+ Parenting.

Absolute cinema.

@O_TooleKathleen Everyone should know “The Song of Mr. Toad!”

Here's a glimpse inside Hillsdale's K-12 Program Guide, a comprehensive scope and sequence for every subject, every grade, in some of the best classical schools in the country. Here are all the poems students read in 5th grade. The ones in bold are for memorizing. This is part of a yearlong course in literature in which students read novels and nonfiction works as well.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐎𝐟 The case, with two different rulings so far, concerns whether abortion pills can be mailed directly into states where abortion is illegal. thegospelcoalition.org/article/aborti…

Great news!!

A group of our @CSLewisInst Fellows went to see “The Story of Everything” last night by @DiscoveryCSC. An incredible movie!

@Sut_40 Love the passion you brought today, from your comments about Tucker v. Bregman, your defense of Andre Dawson, Padres consistently buzzing Cubs’ tower, and difference in dugout energy. You’re a true Cub sir! Thank you - Go Cubs Go!

@BMcGrewvy I remember him giving a 10 minute answer to whether abortion is ever justified (it is to him, with “just a little bit of shame”, in lots of circumstances) mixed with some condescension for those Americans who are fixated on the subject…

stunning and brave

@megbasham @PhilNvestigates I don’t think his Mom ever read ‘Dare to Discipline.’

One, if you guys were wondering, Keith Olbermann is still alive and still crazy. And two, @PhilNvestigates, Olbermann is saying this in your defense. So do you agree with him and your friends at the SPLC that Focus on the Family is a hate group?

Frodo taking the ring to Sin City/Mordor…

SCOTUS leak: Here we go again, and why it harms lawyer ethics papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Mets currently feeling “the warmth of collectivism” as they are 0-11 since Zohran Mamdani hugged Mr. Met.

The gaslighting starts early. I see this kind of thing over and over again on social media. Two dads laughing at the fact that “somehow” their baby keeps asking for mama even though they don’t have one, and they’re always told “no.” Babies instinctively want and need their moms. It’s beyond cruel - more cruelty than we allow for animals - that we purposely take them away from their mothers as infants in order to satisfy the desires of adult men.

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul? In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable. He calls the result “men without chests.” People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing. Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear. Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning. Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians. Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.