Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
That's part of the underlying assumption behind the pushback against Florida Gov. Rick Scott's latest STEM initiative: A crusade by humanities professors against Florida governor Rick Scott may be, contrary to their intentions, another sign of the suicide of American education. Scott has proposed lowering tuition rates for students majoring in STEM (science, technology, engineering, …
Continue reading "Do We Really Need GenEd to Make Thinking People?"
Every now and then an article on a supposedly "obscure" subject leaps at you. One of those was "Children Who Disappeared in Britain" by Deborah Cohen of Northwestern University. It chronicles the history of the Normansfield Training Institution near London, from its opening to its ignominious end in 1997. It's significant because it follows the …
Continue reading "When a Little Darwinian Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing"
That's Scott Rasmussen's idea, and he asks a lot of nosey questions: If people trusted the government, there would be no reason to be concerned about background checks, but only one-in-five voters believe the government currently has the consent of the governed. Half the nation views the federal government as a threat to individual liberties …
Continue reading "The Core Issue Isn't Gun Control, But Government Distrust"
From the Stromata (Miscellanies) II, 4: Should one say that Knowledge is founded on demonstration by a process of reasoning, let him hear that first principles are incapable of demonstration; for they are known neither by art nor sagacity. For the latter is conversant about objects that are susceptible of change, while the former is …
Continue reading "Clement of Alexandria on Knowlege and Reason"
Was to state the obvious: Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively — that elite universities are about connecting more than learning, that the social world matters far more than the classroom to undergraduates, and that rather than an …
Continue reading "The Bad Taste of Princeton Alumna Susan Patton"
...even the Federal government boots the likes of Michael Pfleger off the program: Michael Pfleger, the controversial Catholic priest who made racial remarks about Hillary Clinton and defended Louis Farrakhan, has been removed as a keynote speaker at a diversity day event sponsored by a federal government agency. A spokesperson for the Broadcasting Board of …
Continue reading "They Used to Know Christians By Their Love. But Now…"
I've taken something of a "Lenten Break" since Ash Wednesday. I find it more and more frustrating to opine on social and political matters to either a)liberals, who like my old cat only hear the sound of their own voice, or b)conservatives, who can't get themselves to think outside the box at a time when …
Continue reading "Some Thoughts on Same Sex Civil Marriage–from 2004"
With the central event of the Christian calendar coming up, I'd like to link to some of my past pieces for the occasion. If you're looking for something different for this, I can recommend the following: Good Friday They Tell Us What To Do and We Do It Every King is Proclaimed by Soldiers Cross …
SM 30 423 (1970?) This French contribution to the "Jesus Music" era is different in many ways. Given its reference to the liturgy on the back cover, it's probably Roman Catholic in at least its target audience. As opposed to the "garage band" origin and feel of much of the work of the era, or …
Roka LP-7316 (1973) If the previous Puerto Rican album was a conservative throwback for its day, this one is anything but: it's a hard-driving rocker, some of which isn't particularly Hispanic in flavour. And it varies in style too, from very fast pieces to very slow ones. If the goal was to reach into the …
Continue reading "Inri Ezel: Aunque La Tierra Tiemble Debemos De Cantar"
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