The Right Word

If you institute programs and policies without principles, the programs and policies become the principles. Eventually they seek nothing more achievable than to perpetuate themselves.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Why Academic Tenure is a Good Thing

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More than once in the last several years I have heard college presidents and trustees suggest that the colleges over which they ...

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Detroit, Dresden, and Hiroshima

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As everyone knows, Hiroshima, Japan was nuked into oblivion. Not much earlier, firebombing dispatched Dresden, Germany to the sam...

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Public Reason

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Public reason is reason offered to the public in order to persuade them that a particular policy is wisest, most efficient, and...

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

C. S. Lewis vs. T. S. Eliot (part 2)

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In chapter 2 of his acute little book A Preface to Paradise Lost , a chapter entitled “Is Criticism Possible?” C. S. Lewis schools T. S. E...

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Reading the Bible More Carefully

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No serious Bible reader always reads literally, if by "literally" we mean "at face value." They read poetry as poetry,...

Friday, June 1, 2012

Legislating Morality (part 4)

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Morally sound law helps us to distinguish right from wrong, innocence from guilt, and justice from injustice. But if the law from which w...

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Legislating Morality (part 3)

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If you object to legislating morality, you could not, for that very reason, raise any effective moral objection to execution as a punishmen...

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Dr. Michael Bauman: Dr. Michael Bauman is Professor of Theology and Culture at Hillsdale College, where he is also Director of Christian Studies. He is Scholar in Residence for Summit Semester and Directer of the CS Lewis Summer School in Oxford for the Oxford Studies Abroad Programme. He is a former world champion and a four-time state champion in cycling.

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