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"The Hidden-Hand Presidency" and Principal Leadership
Why not draw leadership lessons for our Catholic schools from an analysis of the presidency of Eisenhower published in 1982? Fred...

Kevin D
Dec 6, 20244 min read
The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Wallace Stevens
Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle in such...

Kevin D
Nov 19, 20201 min read


Preludes for Memnon by Conrad Aiken
Winter for a moment takes the mind; the snow Falls past the arclight; icicles guard a wall; The wind moans through a crack in the window;...

Kevin D
Nov 17, 20203 min read
Shine, Perishing Republic
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire 'And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass,...

Kevin D
Nov 13, 20201 min read


The End of Liberalism and Catholic Schools
I wrapped up Notre Dame Professor Patrick Deneen 's Why Liberalism Failed yesterday. The thesis of the book is essentially that...

Kevin D
Feb 28, 20193 min read


Self-Care
He said to them, 'Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.' For many were coming and going, and they had no...

Kevin D
Feb 10, 20192 min read


Poetry
Growing up, outside of Shel Silverstein, I was never a big fan of poetry. It didn't truly speak to me until my senior of high school....

Kevin D
Feb 1, 20192 min read
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