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The Moviegoer turns fifty. The decline and fall of the Borders Empire. Resources for teaching introductory philosophy (Gilmour is so going to use the Gadfly Experiment next time he teaches…
Philosophy, Theology, Literature, and Other Things Human Beings Do Well
The Moviegoer turns fifty. The decline and fall of the Borders Empire. Resources for teaching introductory philosophy (Gilmour is so going to use the Gadfly Experiment next time he teaches…
The art exhibit that marks… wait for it… the end of postmodernism (let’s see if this draws out the Emergent crowd…) James K.A. Smith on the problems with contemporary academic…
The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century Some…
Is the contemporary American novel written in vernacular English? A Londoner visits Atlanta (and has several nice things to say about it!) What’s Harold Bloom’s favorite book of the Bible?…
Tripp Fuller cites some Barth, this time on purpose! I think he’s turning to our side! Why Bill Cosby is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of storytelling An entirely sensible proposal to…
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…
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…
Tripp Fuller issues a manifesto on seminary education. Did you hear the one about the Hegelian who went to Saint Louis? An encomium for Stanley Fish The science of self-control…
Going Victorian and Getting Medieval (H/T Chris Armstrong) While Emergent continues wax liberal, Missional issues a conservative manifesto. A defense of academic specialization in the humanities One more take on…
In which a small college English teacher complains about high school English teachers and R-1 literature professors The ritual of meaningless questions and predictable answers
The art of liveblogging the death of Osama bin Laden The Twitter feed in question Stephen Prothero on the sea burial of Osama bin Laden Jeff Wright asks some questions…
A review of Harold Bloom’s 847th book. James K.A. Smith talks about the new evangelical universalism. Stanley Fish on the moral absurdity of formal disputes The eighties, once again, burst…
Adorno, Bordieu, and the iPod. Philosophy-of-technology geeks unite! How America can take John Winthrop’s most famous Biblical allusion more seriously The spooky and insidious implications of treating reality like a…
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…
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…