Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century. This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.

We were honestly dying laughing at the CLT office when this Atlantic article dropped. We knew the Johns Hopkins Study was coming the next day, a study that empirically proved the new SAT is a total joke. Notice they critique our math without even mentioning we are the only test that doesn’t allow for a calculator. It is so dishonest. Everyone with basic knowledge of the three tests knows CLT is the hardest, this is not a debate. Talk to students, 100% of them will tell you the same thing. This article was about Tuesday’s election and following the Hopkins study it has now done unimaginable damage to The Atlantic’s reputation. This article proves why outlets like the Free Press are experiencing massive growth while The Atlantic is struggling for subscribers.

I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT. It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher... Vocabulary has collapsed. Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab. New SAT: 15%. The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context. Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340). The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it. This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means. If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these. If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now. This cannot go on.

They knew they couldn’t just say, “We hate Christopher Columbus for bringing Christianity across the Atlantic” so instead they demonized the man and tore down his statues. I think now is a good time to build new ones.

After teaching in public schools for 10 years I was baffled when I started to get to know homeschooling families. Many of them only do a couple hours of “school” a day, the rest of the time the kids are playing in tree forts, digging holes, helping out around the house, learning to hunt, playing with musical instruments, reading whatever they want to read. The most successful families simply have a culture of reading and learning that permeates the household. And Homeschooled students average score 15 to 30 percentile points above national norms across all standardized tests.

I remember one of my LSU professors mocking the medieval idea that the peasants could learn from cathedrals. I can’t imagine a better place for university students to spend a week. Art, History, Mathematics, Scripture, Architecture. It’s ALL there. The ancients were right.

The Botafumeiro is one of the most spectacular traditions of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral: eight tiraboleiros swing a 53 kg giant censer through the nave at speeds of up to 68 km/h. The ritual has been performed since at least the 12th century.

This 800 year old church in Ethiopia was carved downwards from solid rock. According to Ethiopian tradition, it was completed in twenty-four years “with the assistance of angels.”

The numbers defy logic, nearly 20% of all men who graduate from John Paul the Great K-12 school in Louisiana go on to seminary (at most Catholic schools it’s less than 1%). The classical education, Daily Mass, and Eucharistic adoration are creating a quiet revival.

“The Classic Learning Test, a standardized college entrance exam that focuses on the Western Canon, has become popular in some Red States. Will it replace the SAT or ACT?” Blue states are free to like us too, it’s not our problem if they hate Aristotle