We watched How...Live in historiography and laughed out loud. It was so dated and wrong. You kind of wonder if FS actually read the primary sources. On the other hand, he contributed so much by actually engaging with intellectual history. FS is good STARTING point, but you'll have a skewed idea of philosophy and art if you end there.

What part did you watch in historiography? What was in particular that made you laugh? The books that I've read, well, they seemed to make the most sense to me when they were talking about culture in the twentieth-century (the line of despair and its effect on art, the philosophical stuff behind the hippie drug culture, etc.).

Sigh...these kids are so smart. It's hard to keep them challenged. But some of them will be going to non-Christian colleges and we want to give them an introduction to world-view thinking, etc., the kind of stuff that was really helpful at Covenant that they might not get at a state university.

Of course, we'll approach FS critically, but I want them to be critical thinkers not cynical thinkers, and sometimes it feels like there is such a fine line there...