Filmmaker Vic Losick recently released "In God We Teach," a documentary about a public high school student who surreptitiously recorded a lecture given…
“In God We Teach”
education
The Feynman Series: scientific…and spiritual (?)
This past February, the seven-part video series honoring Carl Sagan and his contributions to science was released, attracting the attention…
Transmitting “secular” oral traditions
Why does our academic culture operate under the assumption that “secular” education is fundamentally distinct from or superior to non-“secular”…
The house that D’Souza built?
Earlier this year, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, a former adjunct professor at King's College, wrote an exposé for Killing the Buddha…
Prayer is technology. I think.
My dissertation is a comparison of the use of prayer, scripture, science education, and “high technology” in four religious high…
CFP: “Ethics, Religion, and Civil Discourse”
How might schools play a role in encouraging or discouraging civil discourse across religious and political lines? The National Endowment…
Secular humanism, the Christian Right, and progressive education
Over at U.S. Intellectual History, Andrew Hartman wants to know why, starting the 1970s, the Christian Right came to see…
Nothing human is foreign to me
The problem as I see it is not that students in the liberal arts are somehow forbidden to argue their…
Yearning, yawning, and resisting
Three cheers for Kahn et al., on the occasion of their bold ride into the heart of liberal arts territory,…
Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts
Between 2006-2009, with the support of the Teagle Foundation, four self-identifying secular liberal arts campuses—Bucknell University and Macalester, Vassar, and…