by Kevin Bauder | Jul 21, 2017 | Anthropology, Culture, Friendship, Manliness, Politics, Social Issues
Anthony Esolen writes eloquently for Touchstone Magazine about pansexualism, philosophy of language, and how contemporary sexual openness has brought an end to serious male friendships. This essay is a bit longer to read, but its implications are profound. By now the...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 19, 2017 | Affections, Anthropology, Civility, Conservatism, Culture, Epistemology, Hamartiology, Logic and Argumentation, Philosophy, Science, Secularism, Social Issues, Technology
Richard Weaver was one of the three or four most important founders of modern conservatism. His Ideas Have Consequences is probably the most important work in defining a conservative outlook. His notion of “metaphysical dream” is priceless. The Imaginative...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 18, 2017 | Capitalism, Culture, Economics, Politics, Race
I first read Thomas Sowell back in the late 1980s. It was his book on The Economics and Politics of Race. It was a great book and Sowell became one of my favorite writers. Sowell recently retired and we are all poorer for it. Andre Archie at The American Conservative...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 17, 2017 | Baptists, Conservatism, Culture, Ecclesiology, Vocation, Work
African theologian David DeBruyn offers a clear and important biblical reason to reject populist objections to special knowledge. God has so made the world and limited man that we each need to specialise in some domain of human life. We need some to give themselves to...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 6, 2017 | America, Culture, Politics, Reviews
I have yet to read Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option. It’s on my list. It’s on my Kindle. But I have other things to do first. Doug Wilson has read The Benedict Option. And he has opined about it. As usual, his opinion is worth reading. And startling....
by Kevin Bauder | Jun 26, 2017 | Accountability, Argumentation and Debate, Culture, Epistemology, Logic and Argumentation, Our Alumni, Tradition
Central Seminary alumnus David DeBruyn notes, “The Internet has not only granted full democracy to all ideas, it has tended to flatten out all judgement, and scrap a sense of hierarchy of trustworthiness.” He adds, “The democracy of ideas is...
