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COVID, Learning, and Liberty

COVID, Learning, and Liberty Bend the curve. Social distancing. A few months ago, these might have referenced grading trends or high school dances, but now, they seem destined to enter 2020’s lexicon as something we’d like to forget. What’s it like to do distance learning at Providence? Two personal first impressions: 1) Providence teachers and […]

Words and Numbers Hosts Visit Providence

By Chloe Olsen, Class of 2021 Coercion’s grasp is capable of stripping American society of liberties, and our deliverance relies on cooperation. On Tuesday, February 21, Drs. James Harrigan and Antony Davies presented a talk to Providence students targeting these concepts. Dr. Harrigan is the managing director of the Center for Philosophy of Freedom and […]

Socialism, Christians, and Ayn Rand’s Anthem

By Chloe Olson     An apple is not an orange.  Even if I desire that apple to be an orange and call my desire true, it is not.  You might disagree and tell me that apple can be whatever I wish it to be.  These questions concern philosophy: when one dwells on existence,  and forms […]

How Foursquare Reveals the Beauty of Spontaneous Order

By Jake Yonally At my high school, four square has always been our lunchtime recreational game of choice. Every day, dozens of students gather on the blacktop to participate in a game with no clear winner, no referees, no official teams, and no written rules or regulations whatsoever. It is—or at least it would appear […]

Celebrate Providence Event a Spectacular Success

Celebrate Providence! A Seaside Soiree took place March 15 at the Rosewood Miramar Beach. It was a special evening that brought together the Providence School community to celebrate Christian education, honor God and his faithfulness to the school, and raise necessary support for the students and mission.  From start to finish, the evening was spectacular. Memorable moments […]

What Do Americans Know about the American System?

What Do Americans Know about the American System? By Emma Gobbell, Class of 2020     A survey conducted by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation this year discovered that a mere 36% of Americans were able to pass the U.S. citizenship test, based on questions given to immigrants who apply for American citizenship. This test […]

Libertas Scholars Work and Play the Summer Away

It meant getting up in the wee hours on a July morning when most students were sleeping in, and taking a bumpy van ride to LAX for a long flight to hot and muggy St. Louis, but for five Providence Libertas Scholars, a three-day seminar on Leadership and Economics sponsored by the Foundation for Economic […]

He Was a President Who Understood Principle

He Was a President Who Understood Principle Coolidge was the rare sort of politician who stuck by his principles of fiscal responsibility and governmental restraint. by  Jake Yonally In his veto of a congressional salary increase, our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, told Congress that, “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been […]

Happiness and Liberty in San Diego

Happiness and Liberty in San Diego On a sunny Saturday in mid November, eight Libertas Scholars traveled to the University of San Diego to hear professors of philosophy, political economy, economics, and business talk about happiness. Sophomores Emma Gobbell and Chloe Herdrich, juniors Jake Yonally, Josh Guinto, Evan Kilpper, Pedro Cruz, and Maggie Coffin, and […]