Here David Brooks makes the argument that Elena Kagan, Obama’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, is reminscent of our elite schools’ “Organization Kids”—bright, disciplined, articulate, and well-meaning junior careerists who do everything necessary to get ahead in . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of months ago, I received a request from Sarah Harland-Logan at Harvard Political Review for an interview about my book The End of Secularism . I agreed. Ms. Harland-Logan sent me a sizeable set of questions which I answered in full. The article is now available . . . . . Continue Reading »
I did an interview with the Harvard Political Review several weeks ago. The story is largely a paean to secularism. Steven Pinker even takes credit for democracy as an achievement of secularists. I know. That’s the history you get from an evolutionary psychologist.To the . . . . Continue Reading »
Each year, PayScale ranks college degrees based on their earnings potential. Not surprisingly, theology and religious studies ranked near the bottom, proving once again that they should be used to help you store up treasures in heaven since they won’t earn you riches down here on earth. The . . . . Continue Reading »
In The New Atlantis , Patrick Deneen argues that science and global competition have hollowed out the liberal arts : When conservative critics of our universities nowadays lament the decline of liberal education, they usually decry its replacement by a left-leaning politicized agenda. But the . . . . Continue Reading »
Deborah Markus, at Secular Homeschooling , has a list of retorts for homeschooling parents tired of the inane questions and complaints they get about educating their own children: 1. Please stop asking us if it’s legal. If it is — and it is — it’s insulting to imply that . . . . Continue Reading »
Why a hilltop fortress taken by King David three thousand years ago should occasion so much turmoil in world politics is a source of wonder, and wondering about it helps makes sense of politics as they really are, and not as the Enlightenment presented them to us. Today on the Hebrew calendar is the . . . . Continue Reading »
“It’s a calling,” declares the press release in my email inbox. Ask anyone who works in the healthcare profession and they will likely tell you that their work is born from a desire to help people, to nurture the sick, to heal the ailing. Caregiving is not for the faint of heart; . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark it down, the time and place: At 1:13 this morning, there actually occurred a moment where all my email inboxes and to-do folders were empty—every email answered. It won’t last, of course, but isn’t that a great feeling? Now, on to all the unanswered paper mail. . . . . Continue Reading »
See, this is a small, but I think important, example of why science has lost credibility on the global warming front. Science, one of the most important science journals in the world, published a fake photo of a polar bear on a melted ice floe in the middle of an infinite sea to defend global . . . . Continue Reading »
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