HeyJaredSchools, Souls, and Civitas
Essays by Dr. Gary Houchens on education, faith, and public life.
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Is technology making high school a joke? (opens the original)
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Below is my column for the September 27 edition of the Bowling Green Daily News.I want to issue a challenge to my fellow educators who work in high schools: ask your students about their screen time during the school day and take their answers seriously.A new research study by the Fordham Institute surveyed 2,000 current high school students or recent high school graduates about their use of technology during the school day. The results are unsurprising but deeply concerning, and there’s no reas
Guest post: Two schools, two approaches (opens the original)
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For the September 13, 2026 edition of the Bowling Green Daily News, I was happy to lend my column space to Dr. Mark Doggett. Below is his commentary.School has started with much anticipation, and parents are increasingly concerned about the quality and purpose of their children’s education. Two schools beginning their inaugural year in Bowling Green. The Chesterton Academy of Bowling Green and the Impact Center for Leadership and Innovation offer very different approaches to secondary educati
Whom does AI serve? Whom do we? (opens the original)
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Over the last year I’ve spent a lot of time pondering and writing about Against the Machine, English writer Paul Kingsnorth’s compelling 2025 book. “The Machine” is Kingsnorth’s metaphor for the global techno-economic system that has brought an unprecedented quality of material life to humankind but has nearly destroyed us spiritually, psychologically, and socially.Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most vivid and powerful manifestation of the Machine. Kingsnorth asks us to resist the Machin
Wendell Berry’s Affections (opens the original)
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Kentucky writer Wendell Berry has died. In this age of polarization, the poet, farmer, novelist and essayist steadfastly defied conventional political labels.Progressives were drawn to Berry’s criticisms of industrial capitalism and his advocacy for environmental causes. But conservatives often noted that what progressives find appealing in Berry’s work is really the result of his deeper commitments to traditional, local ways of life, and how modernism (and, I would argu
I was a socialist. Here’s why I was wrong. (opens the original)
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Below is an expanded version of my column for the Bowling Green Daily News’ August 30 edition.I have watched the recent surge of socialism within the Democratic Party with both interest and sadness, in part because I was once a socialist myself.I joined the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) when I was in college, before even socialist Bernie Sanders was first elected to Congress and when contemporary DSA darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was still in diapers. I believed that economic inequal
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