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more godspeak . . .

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Religion editor Lisa Miller’s essay in this week’s Newsweek, combatively entitled “Harvard’s Crisis of Faith” troubles me. One can easily grant her point (not actually hers but Louis Menand’s) that … Continue reading »

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puerile supremes guffaw about strip search

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

I am amazed and very seriously troubled by the language and tenor of arguments at the United States Supreme Court in the case of Safford Unified School District v. Redding. … Continue reading »

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snakes may safely graze

Friday, January 9, 2009

No spiel promised: A caller from the democratic congressional hoo-ha, just now, promised “no spiel,” then cozied up with a couple of comments designed to make me feel part of … Continue reading »

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public intellectuals

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Tim Burke sent me this morning to a good piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In “Tales of Western Adventure” Particia Nelson Limerick describes a public sphere project of … Continue reading »

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and it’s tempting too

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

to comment on the dust-up going on in St. Louis about SLU’s new multi-million-dollar basketball coach, Rick Majerus, and Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke. The Post-Dispatch has reviewed (and commented on) … Continue reading »

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not joining up

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Phyllis Schlafly has published a rant about English departments, which, she claims, “are the most radicalized of all [university] departments, more so than sociology, psychology, anthropology, or even women’s studies.” … Continue reading »

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