Attentive readers of the account of Genesis 11, however, might notice that the Babel builders begin not with a plan to build a city and tower, but with the discovery of a technique for firing bricks. The determination to build the city and tower seemingly arises, at least in part,...

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relationship” involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage,...

Following this logic, the job of an education is to fill students with correct information and right opinions, which are possessed by the teachers or curricula. Arguments are not to be presented as arguments—since then they are open to questioning—but rather as bedrock truths. Often students are discouraged from speaking—and...

While Einstein and Bohr’s generation was widely schooled in philosophy, the push toward specialization after World War II had taken its toll on the liberal arts education of the new crop of physicists. Academic departments had become Balkanized as they had grown in the postwar boom, and physicists, busy with...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, by James Davison Hunter The first 2/3 of this book are mostly helpful. The last third is a mixed bag. James Hunter sets out to correct common evangelical approaches to culture, and to offer...