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The Ethics of Being a Theologian
Jon Krause for the Chronicle Review
"Do you find, as an atheist, that you have difficulty defending religious beliefs to your students?" The question came from a professor of metaphysics whose views of reality, I had just confessed to him, strike me as self-evidently false. Perhaps I should have been more tactful. Nevertheless, his question took me by surprise. This intelligent man had just made two false assumptions. Without...
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Field Report: Meteorology
The forecast is mostly clear, with some theoretical cloudiness and a chance of scattered modeling. By Peter Monaghan.
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On History: A Rebellious Take on African-American History
- The Essence of War: Clausewitz as Educator
- What If You Pull a Literary Hoax and Nobody Notices?
- An Intellectual Movement for the Masses
Nota Bene
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What If You Pull a Literary Hoax and Nobody Notices?
Real scholars have been writing journal articles about fiction for years. Why not give a fictional character a turn? writes Peter Monaghan.
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One-Room Schools: 'Caldrons of Chaos'
- 'Seasons of Life'
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Performance Artist at Work; The Aesthetic Darwin
Brainstorm
- Commonplace Corruption
- The Hours
- Fat Fault
- Damned If We Do, Damned If We Don't
- The Action in Princeton, NJ
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Arts & Letters Daily
Farming has always been messy, painful, bloody, and dirty, says Blake Hurst. It still is. More
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Bookshelf: Walter Kirn's 'Lost in the Meritocracy'
W. Barksdale Maynard finds Walter Kirn's Princeton-centered memoir entertaining but unhelpful.
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Will Higher Education Ever Change as It Should?
For true reform, we need a process that will change most, if not all, institutions simultaneously—a dislodging event.
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Colleges Need to Re-Mediate Remediation
Getting students up to speed, particularly in reading and writing, is as American as can be, writes Mike Rose.
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U. of California Cuts: a Dispatch From the Front Lines
Some areas in the humanities—Chinese history, say—may be particularly undermined by cuts in state financing for higher education, says Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.
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Excerpts From Graduation Speeches
Words of inspiration from Joseph R. Biden Jr., Herbie Hancock, Barack Obama, and Robert Rodriguez, among others.
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The Real Reasons to Support Language Study
Learning a language is a humbling process, writes Mauro F. Guillen, by which students learn that their culture and way of expressing it are relative, not absolute.
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The Decisive Difference Between Dean and Professor
Some qualities that make for excellent teachers run counter to those that create good administrators.
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