A few things on-line that caught my eye this week:
100 Most Overrated/Underrated Films
What the United States can learn from the Byzantine Empire.
Did the prosperity gospel movement cause the economic crash? Or was it the devil?
Wendell Berry short story: A Place in Time
Barbara Ehrenreich on the perils of positive thinking.
The fate of South Carolina’s “I Believe” license plate.
Paul Harvey reviews Jonathan Bean, Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader.
Lauren Kientz reports on a roundtable at the recent conference on United States intellectual history.
Rodney Clapp on the tools of writing.
Mt. Holyoke’s appeal to community college graduates.
College students don’t read and what we can do about it.
I rarely, if ever, leave a comment on a blog. To be frank, most of them (blogs and comments) seem to me to be pooled ignorance.
But I check your blog every day, and always find myself challenged to think, and excited to learn.
Messiah College is not a perfect place, but one of our flaws is NOT a lack of gratitude. I am grateful you have chosen to spend your academic life here.
Thanks, David! I too am grateful to be at Messiah. It is a great place to lead an academic life.