Starting something new is hard, but it is especially hard if what you are doing is unprecedented.A business proves this truth.Founding Federal Express before anyone could imagine overnight deliver had all the problems of any new business with the justifiable skepticism of experts who could not . . . . Continue Reading »
Since we posted the ” So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities? “ video this morning, I thought we should give equal time to advice for aspiring law students. (Language warning: Contains an OMG and one use of a synonym for a donkey.) . . . . Continue Reading »
My students and I just reached the part of the semester in political theory where we cover Martin Luther’s On Secular Authority. In that book, he brilliantly addresses the Sermon on the Mount, insisting that Christians must observe it. But how, you might say? If we . . . . Continue Reading »
In his reflection on Reformation Day, Peter Leithart clears up the misconception about the Protestant concept of the “ priesthood of all believers ”: Every Christian is a cleric, Luther proclaimed in one of his earliest treatises, The Freedom of a Christian, and those who “are now . . . . Continue Reading »
Whenever I hear a pundit or politician say—as they do every two years—that this season has seen the nastiest, most negative electoral campaigning in American history, I wonder: “Who was their history teacher?” Because the midterm elections of 2010 ain’t got nothing on . . . . Continue Reading »
I wondered what that woman meant.Why my attempt to TP Peter Singer’s house didn’t quite work out:A human exceptionalist holds true to his . . . . Continue Reading »
Since the middle ages and the rise of the universities as distinct institution, the academic life has been a ripe target for satire. I can’t say this video is as artful as send up of scholastic logic and disputation in The Battle of the Seven Arts by Henri d’Andeli, but has some funny . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in the 1980s when I was still young, I was the fourth talk show host on the three talk show station, KGIL Radio in LA—meaning, I was the regular fill-in host (I sure loved that gig!). The star of the station in the evening drive time slot was a strong feminist and very pro choice advocate . . . . Continue Reading »
Austin Ruse has a dispiriting report from a recent pro-life conference held at Princeton University: Abortion advocates came with a great deal of confidence and a clear agenda. Many of the pro-lifers came with little more than good will, not a little embarrassment, and in many cases an incomplete . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s what I think about the election: The forecasts—based on complicated models—found in the APSA’s PS by real social scientists—with the exception of the one by the astute James Campbell—are, as usual, too timid in terms of picking up the impending surge. . . . . Continue Reading »
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