Yesterday was our first day of discussion in Created and Called for Community (CCC). The students read Stanley Hauerwas‘s 2010 First Things essay “Go With God: An Open Letter to Young Christians on Their Way to College.” After some conversation about...
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Academic Publishing: What’s the Point?
By now many of you may have read Sarah Kendzior’s piece at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s new Vitae website entitled “What’s the Point of Academic Publishing.” She echoes what is these days a fairly common lament about scholarly publishing and...
Jacoby: People Like Stanley Fish Have Abetted the Crisis of the Humanities
Russell Jacoby Head over to The New Republic to read Russell Jacoby’s stinging criticism of Stanley Fish, “Stanley Fish Turned Careerism Into a Philosophy.” I hope these guys don’t meet at a conference somewhere. It could get ugly. On the...
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
Lasch-Quinn Lasch-Quinn describe her latest visit to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University Of Virginia, an institute run by James Davison Hunter. But what makes IASC stand out so much for me, what makes it so […]