Insight
An insightful comment on economics applying to all disciplines from Paul Collier, Oxford prof and author of The Bottom Billion: Part of the reason single-factor theories about development failure are so common is that modern academics tend to specialize: they are trained to produce intense but narrow beams of light.
A New Cartoon Inspired by A Real-Life Misspelling by One of Stanley Fish’s Commenters
HT: Debbie
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
I love Stanley Fish for his willingness and ability to see the bankruptcy of his employers. He regularly stands on the foundation which supports him and whacks at it with his prodigious intellectual sledgehammer. I admit I haven't read enough to see if he ever tries finding another rock to build on, but I suspect he doesn't and that's his point. His latest New York Times blog post is a must-read. It takes up presuppositionalist themes again by reviewing Steven Smith's The Disenchantment of...
From the New Bible Truths F, the 12th Grade BJU Press Bible Textbook Due Out in 2011
It is helpful, even essential, to keep the storyline of Scripture in mind at all times as you read the Bible. If the Bible is about what God is doing to glorify Himself by redeeming His fallen creation, then you’d expect Scripture to point out over and over how God glorifies Himself by saving people from the power of sin. It should be no surprise that God’s standards are higher than we can possibly meet, because Scripture is not the story of man working harder and harder to achieve equality...
Linguistics, Homosexuality, and Friendship
Back in 2005, I wrote the following for the monthly newsletter I’m charged with producing: Touchstone recently dedicated its cover story to the disintegration of male friendships in American society. In the article, perceptive cultural observer Anthony Esolen noted that the unceasing thrust for the normalization of homosexuality in America has pushed boys into heterosexual promiscuity (lest they be accused of homosexuality) and out of healthy male friendships. Men, too, simply could never...