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Agnotology and Education
Late-night comics must miss the days of Cheney and Rumsfeld. Dick Cheney shot people and literally had no heartbeat due to a special kind of pacemaker. Donald Rumsfeld offered rhetorical gems during...
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Required Reading: Louis Menand and the Left-Leaning Ivory Tower
Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Fundamentalists have long argued that America’s colleges and universities had...
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Leftist Bias in the Academy?
Conservatives have long complained that American higher education faculty displayed an intellectually crippling ideological bias. This has been called “anti-intellectualism,” but a more precise term...
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Forget the Zombies, It’s a Bible Apocalypse
Ask Kirk Cameron. One of the most compelling parts of a Biblical worldview is its clear explanation of the future. And that future isn’t too rosy, at least for those outside of the charmed circle of...
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Reds Under the Bed? Christians Under the Couch!
Conspiracy sells. Just ask Dan Brown. But unwarranted anxiety about conspiracy also poisons our shared public life. Conspiracy hunting used to be a sport dominated by conservatives. Think Joe...
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“Awash with the intolerance of enthusiasm:” Michael Ruse Takes on the New...
I don’t think I’d like to be Richard Dawkins in a dunk tank. The provocative and prolific New Atheist, though, seems to relish his role as cultural provocateur. Dawkins is well known for his biting...
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Required Reading: Meet Tim LaHaye
Do you know Tim LaHaye? If you’re interested in conservative educational thinking in the United States, you should. Steve Fouse at AliveReligion recently offered a helpful introduction to LaHaye’s...
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Learning by Discipline
What should schools do with students who behave badly? Who assault other students? Who treat teachers disrespectfully? A new announcement about school discipline from Education Secretary Arne Duncan...
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Who “Gets” Left Behind
I remember reading the novels. I read them in the gym of the high school I taught in. Sometimes students would ask me about them, and I’d say they were about the end of the world. But I also...
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Were the Fundamentalists Right All Along?
Is it time for atheists to celebrate? ThinkProgress calls a recent federal court decision a “major win” for them. In that decision, Oregon’s Judge Ancer Haggerty declared that Secular Humanism deserved...
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