Lucy Wyndam, Author at Professor Carol

Becoming an Artist at Any Age

August 22, 2019August 19, 2019 by Lucy Wyndam

Ed: Lucy Wyndam often sends comments about our Weekly Digest. Today, we welcome her guest post and look forward to more. Do names such as Vincent Van Gogh, Grandma Moses, or Claude Monet ring a bell? Besides being world famous artists, they also have another … Read more

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Jonathan Turley, The Fight Over Parental Rights Just Got Primal. “Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to ‘experts’ on rearing our children.”

Roger Kimball, What the Right Gets Wrong About Art. “Why do so many people feel that if something is regarded as art, they ‘have to go along with it,’ no matter how offensive, foolish, or corrosive it might be?“

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”