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What if colleges took employers' feedback seriously?
Responding to market feedback isn’t something universities are especially good at doing.
Jan 14
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My Top-5 Modern Books of 2025
Sven Beckert.
Dec 30, 2025
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A Request to My Readers
Hildegard College -- the classical first liberal arts college of entrepreneurship
Dec 16, 2025
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Even philosophers do what they want.
The little religions reflected in our everyday lives.
Dec 10, 2025
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The Myth of Expertise — Why I'm not an "academic"
Are we master's of our words, or do our words master us?
Nov 26, 2025
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Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein"—when something isn't better than nothing.
What made Frankenstein a powerful novel when it was published in 1818 is the same insight that makes it especially relevant today: the inescapable…
Nov 12, 2025
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We're all haunted by Milton's Ghost
We’re all haunted by the ghost of Milton’s God.
Oct 30, 2025
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Is education FOR democracy?
Tocqueville, Augustine, and the politicization of Christian education
Oct 24, 2025
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Remembering the Original Social Media — no, not Myspace
Why anti-institutionalism is making social media worse for us.
Oct 15, 2025
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We're Out of Control
Frankenstein is having a moment.
Oct 6, 2025
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I Don't Like Christian Literature
And why the best Christian writing is unlikable.
Sep 29, 2025
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Intellectual Arrogance
Why its good for young people to be intellectually arrogant, sometimes.
Sep 24, 2025
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Stop Defending the Humanities
Occasionally I’ll get a call from a university dean requesting that I review their English or Literature Department.
Sep 15, 2025
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Is Wisdom a Problem?
Paul on Wisdom and Power
Sep 12, 2025
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My efforts to subject institutions of thought, education, religion, and popular culture to insights of the classics.
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