Stump Speeches

Last spring in the critical thinking class I teach, I had students get into groups and make a list of beliefs from those that they are ab...

Justin Masterson got his second start for the Red Sox tonight (see blog on first start here ), and tonight the bullpen did its job and he co...

Those of us in the academic profession feel that new year's day should be sometime in late August. That is the new beginning for us, wh...

I mentioned I was a little disappointed with the seminars at Cornerstone this year ( here ). The first three I tried to go see, the speaker...

I think it was Winston Churchill who said, "Democracy is the worst form of government--except for all the others." Does the same ...

It was a lovely spring weekend in Northern Indiana. I spent a lot of time sitting on decks--both my own and some friends'--enjoying the ...

A similar discussion is raging on the Bethel Facebook network in the Bethel Philosophy Group. And here someone wonders whether all tragi...

I was browsing through the Chronicle of Higher Ed today, which included a big section on the Virginia Tech tragedy. Two weeks after the e...