Religion, reported Inside Higher Ed last week, is now the most popular theme of historical study in America, according to…
Religion and the historical profession
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Teaching Islam in high school
At the Weekly Standard, Stephen Schwartz writes on recent changes in the ways American textbooks represent Islam.
Humanists as cultural agents
Without art, Victor Shklovsky writes in "Art as Technique," "life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's…
Teaching for democracy
When Obama intoned, "This is our moment. This is our time...Yes we can," we needed to ask, of course, "yes,…
How now, creationist?
I had a college teacher certain he had found the solution to the problem of creationists, and, at the time,…
Beyond The God Delusion
The university classroom has become a battleground in the science and religion wars. In a controversial 2005 state of the…
Religion’s return
The Immanent Frame symbolizes a sea-change in American higher education. When I was in graduate school in the early 1990s,…