by Kevin Bauder | Jan 13, 2017 | Old Testament
As usual, the ASOR does not take a high view of Scripture or of biblical history. Nevertheless, Collin Cornell’s article includes interesting information on the Moabite god Kemosh. View it here.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 13, 2017 | Education, Tolerance
Introducing The New Criterion’s discussion of academic intolerance in an essay entitled “Free Speech and the Academy,” Roger Kimball uses George Orwell’s 1984 as a point of comparison. Orwell intended Nineteen Eighty-four as a warning, an...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 12, 2017 | America, Education, How the Left Thinks
The New Criterion is devoting an entire issue to the new intolerance on university campuses. Herbert Marcuse opens the discussion with an essay on “Why the Left Hates Tolerance.” Here’s his conclusion: The classical liberal (who is also the...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 12, 2017 | Art and Literature, J. R. R. Tolkien, Library Tips
Joseph Pearce offers his picks of the best books on J. R. R. Tolkien at The Imaginative Conservative.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 12, 2017 | America, Ethics, Politics, Social Issues
The suit has been filed by Lambda Legal. The hospital is St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Paterson, New Jersey. The patient was a transgender “man” who wanted her uterus removed. The suit alleges that the hospital’s decision is illegal under Section...
