Sunday, October 18, 2015
Top Five: Why Richard Simmons is Awesome
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So the first request of our First Annual APLV Reader Poll was for more Richard Simmons, but Simmons is a man–nay, a presence–we should have...
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Slaves, All Slaves
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One of the most striking modern positions is the reluctance to consider the concepts of freedom and slavery from other than political premi...
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Who Wants to Live in An Experiment?
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No matter how many insults, criticisms, or arguments you hurl against liberals and moderns, one defense stands firm. To every incident of c...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
A Modest Proposal: The Sortes Virgilianae
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Now that the Times of London has made a small step toward civilization and erudition with the return of its weekly Latin crossword puzzle ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Wile E. Coyote, Genius
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Wile E. Coyote is proof that you can blow yourself up, fall off a cliff, smack into a wall, that in fact you can fail and be mangled in e...
Monday, October 12, 2015
The Joy of Repair
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My first personal computer was a Compaq Presario. It came with a 333Mhz processor and 128MB of RAM, and that's back when we actually bo...
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Five Modes of Prayer
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It is often remarked that the greatest perk of teaching is the hours, but for my part the choice perk is working in a building with a chape...
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Figures of Rhetoric and Syntax
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This list of Latin and Greek rhetorical devices was born slowly and out of frustration with existing reference materials, which failed st...
Where Was I? Part II: Because Latin
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When at the conclusion of Latin IV last year I asked my students to reflect on the experience, one remarked that our inability to procure a...
Where Was I? Part I: Marriage
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The longest interruption in blogging since our launch in 2009 is going to require some explaining. – Part I: I Was Married Straig...
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