by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2017 | Art and Literature, Culture, Education, Reviews
As an author who has been much reviewed, Joseph Epstein shares his frustrations over reviewers. This is an older essay, but well worth reading–particularly for students who have to write reviews. What is a good book review? A first blush answer is, I suppose,...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Civility, Tolerance
What should we make of the Southern Poverty Law Center, now that it has started labeling traditionalist and Christian groups as “hate groups?” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars offers an opinion. The culture wars impinge ever closer on...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 29, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology
Now, presumably speech is not predicated of God and humans in a univocal manner: God’s speech did not involve the use of vocal chords, for example, and until matter was created there could have been none of the vibrations we associate with physical sound. Yet by...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 29, 2017 | America, Jonathan Edwards, Philosophy, Politics, Theology
Writing for The Imaginative Conservative, Gordon Arnold argues that Jonathan Edwards was a founding father of American political thought. Edwards offered a political philosophy which was simultaneously Augustinian and compatible with facets of the Enlightenment. He...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 29, 2017 | Accreditation, Education
From US News and World Report: “10 Red Flags an Online Degree Program Is Fake.” Seriously.