Download or Stream this Episode Consider, friends, the final days of Socrates as Plato relates them in the Crito. He refuses to flee Athens precisely because any protest he could articulate would happen in the language of Athenian law, and he can only name the injustice against him because Athens herself gave him the vocabulary.…
Imagine rolling green hills at twilight, speckled with the glow of round windows peeking from under eaves of turf, each opening to a scene of snug, domestic comfort. Imagine an idyllic pastoral land, full of small, happy inhabitants leading small happy lives. Who wouldn’t want to live in the Shire? But we can’t: Hobbiton is…
The Vatican’s recent statement on the practice of theology (HT Fred Sanders) David Brooks on the gray tsunami A right-wing account of class struggle in contemporary America In which Pat Buchanan implicitly compares Rush Limbaugh to Sir Thomas More One professor, thousands of students. What could possibly go wrong?
Ted Gup rails against the verbal filler “like.” (Does he overreact?) As Gilmour pulls within weeks of his dissertation defense, an argument for more diversity in dissertation projects Bringing peer review into the twenty-first century… or not Why cutting humanities programs won’t help the economy
The aesthetics of teaching literature at a Christian college How think tanks are making journalism harder than it already is The rise in Spinoza’s stock value Social psychology and why it’s better than economics The Catholic social critique of Marshall McLuhan Jeff Wright on being a Calvinist and being a Republican
Chris Gehrz of CWC the Radio Show joins the blog scene The role of the humanities in the university and why we’ve failed Two visions of democracy and why one of them is poison On legal briefs as literary texts (or episodes of 24, at any rate) As it turns out, that graduation speaker wasn’t…
Teka Childress interviews four writers on distributionism as a follow-up to last week’s introduction. Christ the Center talks politics with civility and intelligence. CCEL offers a selection of historic Christian texts (in English translation) on divine providence and free will. dr. b theorizes the five stages of grading. John Totten muses on evil, American theology,…
Israeli chess grandmaster Alik Gershon sets a world record by beating 458 of 523 opponents simultaneously. Jenny Truax introduces distributism, an alternative to capitalism and socialism and communism. John Stackhouse criticizes some particularly bad exegesis of 1 Timothy. Joan C. Williams comments on the social expectations that make such bad exegesis possible. Robert Alter’s translation…