Tag: college
Not getting blind drunk doesn’t make you boring
Every year lists come out comparing American institutes of higher learning. Schools are judged on every possible level: test scores, cafeteria quality, standard of living, graduation rate, availability of professors, athletic programs, and a bunch...
Putin’s letter to America, a response and how to apply for anything
Vladimir Putin has written a letter to the American public and it’s in The New York Times. A couple lines give me pause, but it’s well-put and worth reading. On the other hand, here’s a...
On elitism, and why knowledge is good but thinking is better
This is the second part of a two-post series about the education, elitism and the question, “What are you doing with your degree?” Read Part I here. __________________________________________________________________ Knowledge is proven good by the goodness...
Knowledge for knowledge’s sake?
With school starting up again, I’ve been thinking about education. This is the first part of a two-post series about the education, elitism and the question, “What are you doing with your degree?” __________________________________________________________________ In...
The Left’s moral majority, ET and social Darwinism
“The Rise of the Christian Left in America,” is a recent piece from The Atlantic. It does a good job illuminating the popular rise of the Christian Right’s “Moral Majority” in the latter decades of...