Linking Around the Room
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…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #45: Language Is Sermonic
General Introduction – Sweaty technology – In which we creep up on fifty – Name-dropping with Nathan Gilmour – Giving the listeners what they want How English Departments Used to…
Episode #44: Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric
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?…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #43: The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric
General Introduction – What’s on the blog? – Listener feedback Plato Gets Hostile – Nathan explains Weaver – Why does Plato hate rhetoric? – Structure vs. content – What is…
Conservative Link Tank
RIP John Shawcross, Milton scholar. How Top Gun killed the American movie. Jerry Salyer warns against (and admits the inevitability of) a knee-jerk Europhobia. Leonard Davis demonstrates the painful insularity…
Deconstructing "The Real World"
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…
Fellowship of the Link
Rita Koganzon critiques the latest developmental category, “emerging adulthood.” Stanley Fish laments the apparent demise of the humanities in Obama’s State of the Union speech. James Ryerson ponders (and narrates)…
Book Review: The Marketplace of Ideas
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University By Louis Menand. 174 pp. W.W. Norton. $14.95 (paperback) I missed The Marketplace of Ideas when it was first…
Link Cadillac
Stanley Fish notes the similarities in the right-wing and left-wing criticisms of the modern university. Patrick Deneen calls for public liberal arts education, not careerist college education, for all citizens.…
I Link. I'm Gonna Kill Myself.
(Yeah, I’m proud of that title.) Who should determine the course of Christian theology–pastors or professors? (I guess no one’s arguing for bloggers or, um, English teachers.) A model for…
A Link in our Armor
FAQ: Should I do graduate school in philosophy? (not an xtranormal clip) Hauerwas on Leithart on Yoder on Constantine. (HT Jeff Wright) Hey! You left out a very important site…
Link Elephants on Parade
How Moby-Dick prefigures Nietzsche. Alasdair Macintyre criticizes Research-I universities for not really being universities. Jay Bennet, Super-Calvinist, says, “Get the Christ out of Christmas!” A Message from your University President…
On Teaching Plato One Mo' Time
In the spring semester of 2006, I overheard a conversation going on in the hallway between two of my graduate student colleagues at the University of Georgia. The funny thing…
Troy Maxson Goes to Heaven
I’ve enjoyed this semester, not least because, for the first time since 2004, I’ve been called on to teach a general survey of literature, in this case Emmanuel College’s English…
Eat, Link, and Be Merry
Gene Fant talks University Statements of Faith. Why Sherlock Holmes matters. Are non-overlapping magisteria a myth? Fred Sanders counsels writers on learning the craft. Aikido and the Art of the…