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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…
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We're all haunted by Milton's Ghost
We’re all haunted by the ghost of Milton’s God.
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Is education FOR democracy?
Tocqueville, Augustine, and the politicization of Christian education
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Remembering the Original Social Media — no, not Myspace
Why anti-institutionalism is making social media worse for us.
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We're Out of Control
Frankenstein is having a moment.
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I Don't Like Christian Literature
And why the best Christian writing is unlikable.
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Intellectual Arrogance
Why its good for young people to be intellectually arrogant, sometimes.
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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.
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Is Wisdom a Problem?
Paul on Wisdom and Power
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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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