Listening to Young Atheists

Listening to Young Atheists

By Larry Alex Taunton | The Atlantic | “Church became all about ceremony, handholding, and kumbaya,” Phil said with a look of disgust. “I missed my old youth pastor. He actually knew the Bible.” I have known a lot of atheists. The late...
Hooking Up in Shakespeare’s World

Hooking Up in Shakespeare’s World

By Gina Dalfonzo | The Atlantic | Drunken One-Night Stands Don’t Fit in Shakespeare’s World, Yet Joss Whedon put one in his new adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. Here’s why it doesn’t work. In Joss Whedon’s otherwise delightful new...
Mitch Daniels’s Gift to Academic Freedom

Mitch Daniels’s Gift to Academic Freedom

By Benno Schmidt | His skepticism about the merits of a sacrosanct liberal history textbook has sparked an overdue debate. Most Americans would agree that academic freedom is a sacred right of the academy and crucial to the American experiment in democracy. But what...
Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities

Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities

By Cameron McWhirter and Douglas Belkin | Loyola University New Orleans faces a $9.5 million budget gap caused by 25% fewer freshmen this fall than it had expected. As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month, the 101-year-old Jesuit...
Marriage on the Ropes?

Marriage on the Ropes?

By Eric Metaxas | You’ve heard it over and over: Gay “Marriage” is inevitable. Well, at least that’s what its supporters want you to believe. In his book, “The Black Swan,” Nicholas Nassim Taleb discussed what he calls the “narrative fallacy.” This refers to our...
I Mean Business

I Mean Business

By Jason Fertig | Many courses teach about business, but not how to actually do it. As a professor in a business school, each semester I strive to make my courses relevant for students.  For readers who are not well-versed in the ins-and-out of B-Schools, my admission...