Scott Adams of Dilbert fame makes his case against the liberal arts in favor of entrepreneurship training Matthew Stewart makes his case for the liberal arts, especially for those who…

BLOOPBLEEPBLURGH General Introduction – What’s on the blog? – The feud continues – Polymathery Cybernetics as Governance – Not a portmanteau! – Getting organized as a spiritual gift – Rudder-steerer…

the art of theory, a recently-launched online journal of political theory (the inaugural issue’s roundtable on Adam Smith looks interesting) A call for more graduate students to study the history…

General Introduction – Nathan Gilmour watches from the stands – What’s on the blog? – The sad science of naming links posts – Listener feedback – Is anyone still listening?…

Garry Wills goes all Nate Gilmour on Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Torrance Kelly. OH SNAP. Susan Wise Bauer gets hate mail from both sides. Do we worship our partisan political…

In this strange season when the world waits for the Republican primary field to solidify, one can say that certain things are hard to predict and others not hard at…

A conservative complains about the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. What that R-rated incident at Northwestern University really means. Meliorists vs. Traditionalists: The cage match for the ages. Christopher…

In the dead time between semesters, the podcast received a very thoughtful email from listener Ben Mordecai, one asking for more information about our Heidegger episode (one of our best,…

Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are not who we Think they Are By Bart Ehrman. 265 pp. $25.99 (hardcover) Normally I don’t have to establish…

General Introduction – We’re all back! – Farmer’s hobbit faux pas Defining the Phenomenon – Robin Williams and the English Romantics – Personal fulfillment – Raging against the machine with…

Stan Hauerwas on why Church is more truthful than “community” and other tidbits (HT Jeff Wright) Robert Woods recounts Russell Kirk’s defense of Giovanni Pico de Mirandola (how’s that for…

No, I have no plans to write anything at all about any MTV shows that may or may not still be on that network.  (Having been without cable for nearly…

General Introduction – New segment: Michial Farmer’s world of women’s fashion – Thanks for not writing in – Why Nathan is the left-leaner amongst us – What’s on the blog?…

Fred Sanders urges Christians to read Friedrich Nietzsche. In a Grubbsian moment, John Stackhouse makes a case for classical apologetics. Christianity Today interviews Billy Graham, who wishes he hadn’t been…

My pilgrim soul once undertook A journey of the mind To Hindustan, the mythic East The truth of things to find. Of blind men once a rhyme I’d heard Whose…