HeyJaredAdam's Curse
"There is no fine thing since Adam's fall but needs much laboring." Adam's Curse is written by Patrick B. Whalen — Marine veteran, educator, and founder of Iliad Athletics. These essays move between poetry, physical formation, leadership, and education.
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Physical Culture (opens the original)
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Rites of Passage (opens the original)
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The summer I graduated from high school I split my time between rural New Jersey and New York City. In New Jersey I worked at a sawmill. In New York I bummed around the beaches on Long Island during the day and played gigs in the city’s Irish bars at night. I remember many sunny days enveloped in cigarette smoke and salt water, body surfing off Long Beach and passing for twenty-one years old in the bars where I played shows.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.c
Hardy, Rough-handed Obedience (opens the original)
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The gains made in classical education in recent years are truly encouraging. Students once again learn great names, great stories, and encounter primary texts which invite them to enter those stories as participants rather than passive observers. But while the academic program is teaching our children the names of virtues long out of fashion, we should ask whether we have created the conditions in which those virtues can truly take root and flourish.Formation fit for a kingXenophon is famous for
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