by Leroy Hurt | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and New Criterion: What is a liberal education and what it is for? From Cicero’s artes liberales, to the attempts at common curricula in more recent times, to the chaotic cafeteria that passes for a curriculum in most American universities today, the...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Christianity Today: Systematic search programs have dramatically increased the rate of discovery of NEOs and lowered the risk of impact. As of 1990, only 134 NEOs had been discovered. Today, more than 8,800 have been identified. No large asteroid yet discovered is...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Christianity Today: This is the first book-length treatment (that I know of) of the NEO problem that aims to describe that problem to audiences not familiar with it. It only partially succeeds in doing that, mainly because the writing shifts between popular and...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Christianity Today: the disembodied, instantaneous nature of today’s Internet communication cultivates and rewards acrimony where there should be love. To this point, Alastair Roberts observed in response to a recent blogosphere brush-up an “almost...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via The Globe and Mail: What’s missing from our classrooms and our culture, Eagleton says, is discussion of the literariness of literature, of what makes a poem different from a stop sign, or a novel about grief different from the account of grief in the Diagnostic...
