Gene Fant

I try to read several books on management each year (I’m an academic administrator), usually picking up a few things from the bargain bins of the bookstores I enjoy haunting.  This summer I read “Inside Drucker’s Brain,” a collection of Peter Drucker’s principles . . . . Continue Reading »

When Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke at the Harvard School of Divinity in 1838,he delivered an address that should be required reading for evangelicals.  Basically, Emerson exhorted these young clergymen to turn their backs on doctrine to explore unfettered the limits of the human . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Been, the bassist and frontman for the band “The Call,” passed away this Thursday from a heart attack.  He was 60 and had been working sound for his son’s band “Black Rebel Motorcycle Club” at a pop festival in Belgium.The Call never quite got over the hump . . . . Continue Reading »

Back in 2005, Kazuo Ishiguro released his delicate novel “Never Let Me Go.”   You may remember Ishiguro as the author of “Remains of the Day,” which was adapted into a motion picture of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, and Christopher . . . . Continue Reading »

I stumbled across John D. Steinrucken’s interesting essay “Secularism’s Debt to Christianity” in today’s American Thinker.  Steinrucken’s opening paragraph includes this provocative line:Western civilization’s survival, including the survival of . . . . Continue Reading »

The tech world has been buzzing with yesterday’s ruling about the legality of “jailbreaking” one’s iPhone  (removing certain barriers to non-Apple approved applications for iPhones).  This means that phone owners have the right to alter their phones to download . . . . Continue Reading »

I can’t remember the guy’s name, but I once saw an interview with one of the lead writers on the old “Batman” show with Adam West, which was a staple of my childhood.  Evidently the guy had a master’s in historical linguistics or something and he told a . . . . Continue Reading »

As a former resident of Louisiana, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the oil disaster.  The scope is difficult to contemplate.  In my travels around the Internet, I ran across this website, where you can put in your hometown or any other location and see just how large the . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Singer, the rather notorious Princeton ethicist, published a provocative essay in the New York Times blog “Opinionator” proposing that we should consider making this generation the last of the human species.  He pondered what would be wrong with universal . . . . Continue Reading »

I was sitting at my son’s baseball game last night catching up on some reading when I picked up the latest issue of PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association (March 2010).  The first essay was by Timothy Morton: “Queer Ecology.”  Prof. Morton calls for a . . . . Continue Reading »