Even if we see problems within our team, it is notoriously difficult to go against your own group, whatever that group is.
The Arena
Essential Latin for graduation season
Congrats, grads! Please utilize Latin terms responsibly!
Blessing of Unicorns: Choosing a Christian college, the joy of reading, care for others, (dis)ordered desires
This week’s Unicorns include choosing a Christian college, the joy of reading, care for others, (dis)ordered desires, and more.
The New York Times swings and misses on abortion, again
Coverage of the abortion debate this week in NYT breaks basic journalistic rules.
The encouraging work of Upper House in Madison, WI
What does higher education need next?
Celebrating the publication of Kathryn Milne, Inside the Roman Legions, 264-107 BCE
A new book takes us inside life and service in the Roman legions, 264-107 BCE
Lying for injustice in Louisiana
From 1994 to 2007, eight judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit turned down 5000 petitions from poor prisoners, without reading them.
Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing
This week’s Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing
The lost social justice ethic of the temperance movement
This essay is cross-posted from the Anxious Bench. When even the most conservative of American evangelicals started drinking alcohol, they lost their movement’s philosophical foundation for social justice. That’s an overly simplistic statement, but what I mean by that is […]
Not-so-fine people
By refusing to condemn antisemitic student protests, Biden sounds eerily like the “there were fine people on both sides” statement by Donald Trump in response to White supremacists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
Reactionary protesters and Harvard bigotry
This week’s reactionary protests at Harvard and Columbia have a long, ignoble history.
New antisemitism: “A Hatred Immune to Education”
When it comes to antisemitism in America, it’s out with the old, in with the new.
Ode to enthusiasm
Our time seems less likely to produce or appreciate a Keats, and that is unfortunate. Many people spend much of their time being critical or angry.
Blessing of Unicorns: Books, books, books–and exercise!
This week’s roundup includes books coverage and essays on exercise. But it’s okay to read about exercise and not feel like you need to go for a run or something after.
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: through an index darkly
Here is a glimpse of my forthcoming book through five entries in the index.
Historian Chris Gehrz on ranking Christian colleges
Historian Chris Gehrz on why college rankings are particularly problematic when it comes to ranking Christian colleges.
Tangled up in alliances? U.S. involvement in NATO
Brian Bengs’ analysis of NATO and collective security is worth thinking about, whether you agree or disagree.
Finding the light in Ukraine: Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov wins a 2024 Zenger Prize.
Blessing of Unicorns: 1929, children and parenting, C.S. Lewis, and levitating saints
This week’s roundup includes articles on 1929 in detective fiction, our “family unfriendly” society, C.S. Lewis, and saints who really flew!
Nancy French, Ghosted—a conservative, interrupted
Nancy French’s memoir is a story of God showing love to the weak and redeeming creation while also calling fallible people to restore justice already here on earth.