Questions regarding the value of a college education have spiked recently, highlighted by high-profile media coverage. Beyond the hype, three substantive attacks have been levied: (1) the college wage premium is illusory, (2) the lifetime wealth premium that college...
The first in a series of articles about how today’s traditional-age college students experience the world — and how it affects their education. Theresa MacPhail is a pragmatist. In her 15 years of teaching, as the number of students who complete their reading...
This Venn Diagram is doing the rounds, speaking to History and Dystopian Literature in 2024 or for our times: The sign is an indicator to popular unintelligence in the general population, and of the general population....
From Peter FitzSimons, "David Marr on Dutton, Waleed … and being an outsider on Insiders," The Sydney Morning Herald online. Fitz: David! I interviewed the brilliant Hannah Ferguson last week, and one of the things she was decrying is that there’s...
Dear friends, Today, at a BBQ, a young woman suggested that the edifices of peace in the middle east be forbade, due to her reading of biblical history. When I challenged her on an alternative -- postmillennial -- reading, she clammed up. So I let her know of...
The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944). By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA 2023 PESA Conference INTRODUCTION The paper is an examination on the history and future of...
From Nell Gluckman, ‘Call the Philosophy Department Office and Tell Them I Have Been Arrested’, MAY 7, 2024 Tell me what that day, April 25, was like for you. How did it start? I’m chair of my department, and we were having our once-every-10-year...
Sleeping Satellite Song by Tasmin Archer Sleeping Satellites caught up in the spiral historiography unawares, and I am waking you up so that you can live your dreams rather than passively melt into the big sleep. ...
"Four Older men in a restaurant. Nothing unusual about that. Except to the observant and astute to the modern social dynamics, it does warrant a thought. Four Older men, each representative of at least three age groupings, 40s, 50s, and early 60s, and each at...