Harvard has apparently decided that single sex gym time will help Moslem students feel at home.
There is nothing wrong with a private institution trying to make some students feel more at home. In fact, it is a good thing and one would only wish more universities would show sensitivity to all their students. The only problem with the situation is that Christian students at m...
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Ask a conservative college student about the death of William F. Buckley today and he or she is likely not to know the name.
He probably does not read National Review.
She surely has never watched Firing Line, not even on You-Tube.
Explaining to them what the world was like in the seventies for conservatives is hard to do properly. It sounds too much like OG stories of...
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Senator Clinton will never be president. Obama would be a fool to put her on a ticket and he is no fool.
Against a weak field, cleared out for her, she failed. She is a phenomenally weak campaigner who is exhausted by crowds and people. She is smart, perhaps having the most book smarts in the race, but she has no "people intelligence." She is MS-DOS in a suddenly Windows wo...
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On Tuesday Feb. 25, Dr. Anthony Esolen spoke to the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. Dr. Esolen, professor of English at Providence College, is best known for his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Esolen's edition prints the original medieval Italian verse on the left-hand pages, with his vigorous English translation on facing right-hand pages, daring you to...
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Here is what I said (as best I can recall) at the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, Feb 22 for the grand opening of Biola's heritage room. The event was also the official release of the 100th anniversary commemorative book Rooted for One Hundred Years. I got to speak just after Dietrich Buss, history professor emeritus. I put it here on the blog because some of the remar...
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It began for me when I heard a debate watcher say (something like), "It doesn't matter whom we nominate. The Democrats will win."
The two major candidates for the Democrats have forced each other further to the left, bad politics generally, and still have not dealt with changing public perceptions of Iraq. The Surge keeps working and Iraq keeps improving. Political goals in...
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Popular internet artist Freddy Age 7, in a rare signed artwork, pays homage to the first president of the United States (see Freddy's extensive online art gallery here). Patriotic images, especially ones inspired by national holidays, are a staple of this young artist's ouevre.
This image features a George Washington figure recognizable by his white wig and numerous subtle ...
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Renowned scholar of Fundamental Evangelicalism and the secularization of American universities, George Marsden, visited Biola this week as a guest of the Associated Students. On Wednesday a small number of faculty, including myself, had the opportunity to speak with him. When I asked him what he thought would keep Biola University from following the course of formerly religious...
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On April 10-12, Wheaton College will host its seventeenth annual theology conference. The Wheaton Theology Conference is always a great event to attend: well run, small enough to be a friendly meet-and-greet with fellow theology lovers, big enough to feel like something important is happening. InterVarsity Press co-sponsors it with Wheaton's Graduate Department of Biblical ...
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Cartooning is fun, and anybody who'd like to try their hand at it should probably go buy Scott McCloud's excellent book on it. But if you don't want to spend the money on McCloud's far-reaching description of comics technique, here's a fun free intro: Barnacle Press has a "Pocket Cartoon Course" from the 1940s available in their archive.
If you learn to cartoon using this ...
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Mrs. Obama has not been proud of being an American for her entire political life.
Her husband sees an America full of problems and promise.
Combine the two facts with his policy ideas and one begins to suspect that both Obamas long to return to the golden age of their childhoods. They long not for Camelot, but for Lyndon Johnson's great society.
The problems of America...
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