Emma Maggie Solberg's The Virgin Whore spends far too much time taking bad jokes and strained wordplay too seriously, and too little time taking basic theology seriously enough. Continue Reading »
Featuring Jacques Berlinerblau on his latest book, Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students.Continue Reading »
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books by karen swallow prior brazos, 272 pages, $19.99 In On Reading Well, Liberty University English professor Karen Swallow Prior sets forth a thoughtful, nuanced vision of the relationship between morality and literature. This vision . . . . Continue Reading »
The village idiot of the shtetl of Frampol was offered the job of waiting at the village gates to greet the arrival of the Messiah. “The pay isn’t great,” he was told, “but the work is steady.” The same might be said about the conditions of the bookish life: low pay but steady . . . . Continue Reading »
Elijah, the great scholar (Gaon) of Vilna in the eighteenth century, is synonymous with total devotion to Torah study above all other pursuits. Paradoxically, because he held that deficiency in mundane wisdom leads to deficient understanding of God’s word, he has also become an emblem for . . . . Continue Reading »
Education is genuinely liberal—education for freedom—only if it’s willing to conduct students away from self-love to proper objects of love. Continue Reading »