John Fea

If! Where are the believers who say if? In my own adventures in the religious life, nothing has disaffected me more than the certainty with which believers speak about occult entities and forces. The clarity is arrogant. But there is […]

I am talking with a former professor of mine. She is telling me that she believes that part of our job as teachers of undergraduates is to help our students, as she puts it, “instrumentalize” the things they learn from […]

“…Humanities departments have withered over the past two decades: smaller classes, fewer majors, and a shrinking faculty. A debacle. In part, it is owed to students voting with their feet: they think the jobs are elsewhere, so they gravitate to […]

It can be a pleasure to learn from the Internet, but you best have acquired your basic knowledge from something that is not the Internet. A book is a good idea; five hundred (good) books is better. If you do […]

How then, do you distinguish the sane members of the leftist tribe from the whackos? You start to recognize both versions–the sane and the pathological–by their voices. The sane speak with self-awareness and usually some self-doubt. Irony infuses what they […]

When we analyze how systems and institutions operate in concrete terms rather than just waving our hands at ‘”the system,” “history,’” or related abstractions, we can see that inequalities within institutions tend to be produced and sustained by everyday practices […]

Within symbolic capitalist circles, the term [“Latinx”] is increasingly regarded as the correct way to refer to people of Hispanic or Latino origin. Its use has grown increasingly pronounce in outputs by nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups, academics, journalist, […]

Symbolic capitalist and affiliated institutions ritualistically describe themselves as racist, sexist, and so on in a paradoxical bid to demonstrate their virtue. However, to have others brand one as a bigot, and to be treated as a bigot, is a […]