Why the Public Needs Intellectual Curiosity
Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to evaluate something that is not quantifiable and that is the problem for those…
Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to evaluate something that is not quantifiable and that is the problem for those…
Lewis McCrary asks a vital question in The American Conservative: What is a suburb? While he notes that this can be…
I would commend to you Brian Miller’s essay on whether beauty if belonging or practice. As he notes, beauty is…
James Hoskins offers a useful critique of God’s Not Dead for all of those who find its central conflict—between a…
I am glad that The Son of God has been relatively successful. But I don’t plan on seeing it. That might mean that, ultimately,…
I should preface my next response to Rod Dreher by saying that, yes, I do read other stuff. I find…
The humanities don’t just tell is what we shouldn’t be doing. They help us figure out what we should be…
The venerable Rod Dreher calls my attention to this piece which he calls “the ultimate millennial whine”. I think that…
Would you still love your favorite artists if they did something bad? Would if it was something really, really, really…
Though not too many tenured professors would likely admit it, most know that, if they want things to stay as…
Only 15% of Stanford’s students are in the humanities–and the more the humanities try to be like the sciences, the…
The future’s not what it used to be, but, then again, maybe it never was. James BanksJames Banks is the…
James Banks: Joe Carter vs. Front Porch Republic…we need to consider “community” as particular places, not as an ideology. James…
James Banks: We’re not more enlightened than the ancients. We’re just richer. James BanksJames Banks is the editor of the…
The real revolution in higher education might not come from OWS; it might come from the iPad and Kindle. James…
James Banks: higher taxes may not affect the 1%. They may not even affect jobs. But they do affect the…