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Category: Classics

Multi-Instrumental Homeschool Band Goes Viral for Reviving the Classics With Heart-Melting Vocals

A group of young musicians who hail from homeschooling backgrounds have crossed states and blended musical styles to form a unique band with a mission: to keep the classics alive. “I met Joe at a church concert, I met Carver at a homeschool get-together, I met Silas at a similar-type thing, and it’s kind of…


The Revolt Is On!

Commentary We’ve crossed the three-year mark of the worst years for freedom in our lifetimes. What do we see? Something I’ve expected since the entire fiasco of lockdowns began. I wrongly assumed it would begin immediately. It waited three years but it is finally here; a full-on revolt against all the forces that broke the…


Sweet Dreams

This film is available globally except in Russia and Belarus. The carefree dream of a guinea pig sleeping in the safety of his comfortable cage is suddenly interrupted when he wakes up in a strange forest. A sound-and-vision homage to the silent films and cartoon classics of Charlie Chaplin and Chuck Jones, “Sweet Dreams” is…


Snowball’s Christmas Tails by the Fire

This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. This holiday, spend some time with Snowball and his friends as they tell Christmas stories around the fire, including time-honored Christmas classics. …


How to Connect Teens With Good Books

Lately, I’ve been reading from M.F.K. Fisher’s “The Art of Eating.” I say “from” because this thick volume contains five books that Fisher wrote on cooking and dining. And her prose is as exquisite as the dishes she recommends. While reading this book, the thought suddenly hit me: Why aren’t our students reading this sort…


The Classics Are for Everyone, Not Just Old, Dead, White Men

Yes, yes, and yes! That was what I shouted, in the silence of my heart, when I finished Louis Markos’s online review, “How Classical Education Can Liberate Black America.” Earlier that same week, I read yet another account of an attack on the classics of Western civilization, the Great Books as they were once called, as…


Flight to Nowhere (1946)

A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to…


Somewhere in Dreamland (1936)

In their dreams, two poor and hungry tots enter a fantasy kingdom where there are more sweets than they can eat. But when they wake … Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films…


Educated Fish (1937)

A rebellious fish refuses to listen to his teacher until he ventures out into the real world and discovers the importance of education. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.”…


Reviving the Classics for a Modern World

Once upon a time, an understanding of the ancient past was the hallmark of any educated person in the West. A study of classical authors, including Plutarch and Cicero, was a staple of education that has fallen out of vogue. This course of study is by no means an outdated source without value to us…