Category Archives: Read it on ALDaily

What would Darwin do?

Posted on 2009/08/18 by ngilmour

Must science declare a holy war on religion? — latimes.com. As with most controversial, cable-news-type questions, I’m not dogmatic enough in either direction to please the folks whose fight this really is.? Nonetheless, I thought that the ending of this … Continue reading →

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Brains and Minds

Posted on 2009/06/10 by ngilmour

Can a Machine Change your Mind? I love discussions of mind and brain–they’re some of the sites of the most interesting philosophical work that I’ve seen. I took a History of Psychology class at Milligan, and as a young philosophy … Continue reading →

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Atheist Capitalism vs. Atheist Liberalism on the Benefits of Religion

Posted on 2009/06/04 by ngilmour

Free Market Faith I finished this article scratching my head.? The author is a British atheist and editor of the Economist, and his praises for the pragmatic benefits of religious pluralism fit nicely with that sort of free-market ideology: Consider … Continue reading →

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Dante: The Video Game

Posted on 2009/05/27 by ngilmour

Endpaper – Fiction reaches a new level I’m not sure whether to laugh or to cry. Better yet, I’ll just wait until I can get it cheap on eBay.

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Officer Training in the Colleges

Posted on 2009/05/21 by ngilmour

ROTC and the Future of Liberal Education First, before I forget it, how great is it that the president of Harvard is named Faust?? That’s a goldmine for newspaper headlines as far as I’m concerned.? “Budget Cuts Call for Faustian … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Dissent in the Educational Psychology World

Posted on 2009/04/30 by ngilmour

How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds – WSJ.com. I might have to check this book out this summer.? Daniel Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?, according to this review, seems to take some of the psychological studies that educational theory … Continue reading →

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Preachy Atheists

Posted on 2009/04/11 by ngilmour

The New Atheists? Easter message? ?Grow up or die? | spiked. It’s always nice to read a bit of complex thought, especially when proponents of us-versus-them have been pounding away at a division of the world into… us and them.? … Continue reading →

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All-Stars and Saints

Posted on 2009/03/21 by ngilmour

The Roar of the Crowd – ChronicleReview.com. I would normally start out a reflection on an article like this with an admission that I’m just as avid a sports fan as the next guy, but then I have to remember … Continue reading →

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AM Radio and Christian Catechesis

Posted on 2009/03/02 by ngilmour

How Radio Wrecks the Right As many of my readers no doubt know, I was for the period of a year and a half or so simultaneously a contributing writer for the blogs Christian Feminism and Conservative Reformed Mafia.? (The … Continue reading →

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Pretty Funny Bit

Posted on 2009/01/12 by ngilmour

Reblock Yourself the Polly Frost Way! There’s not much to say about this aside from it’s really funny. I moved to Sedona, Arizona, and once again began to focus on my own creative work. Easing back into my own true … Continue reading →

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Horowitz at the MLA

Posted on 2009/01/10 by ngilmour

Impasse at MLA Folks who have read my material over at the Conservative Reformed Mafia know that I agreed to participate in an experiment with J. Wizzle (a screen name, of course) in which we both reviewed David Horowitz’s Indoctrination … Continue reading →

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Anthropology’s Big Fight

Posted on 2008/12/01 by ngilmour

The Great Divide I’m not an anthropologist and have had reservations, about which I’ve written here, about anthropology as a discipline.? That said, this little essay is making me realize that what I’m concerned about might reflect a division among … Continue reading →

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Marketing Western Civilization

Posted on 2008/11/14 by ngilmour

Learning for Everyone Not a profound essay, but an interesting bit of American popular history.? I knew that the Great Books movement started in the early twentieth century at Columbia and Chicago, but I never knew about its appeal outside … Continue reading →

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I Want to Be This Sort of Professor

Posted on 2008/10/02 by ngilmour

The Thinker I ran into this little piece on ALDaily, and it reminded me once more that what I’m doing, if I stick to doing it, is a worthwhile way to spend what years I’ve got left breathing air.? The … Continue reading →

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Matrices of Morality

Posted on 2008/09/15 by ngilmour

What Makes People Vote Republican? I’m never sure what to think about anthropologists–on one hand, at least they’re trying to understand what some people wouldn’t.? On the other, I wonder whether they ever actually ask the people involved what they … Continue reading →

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Going Forward, Doing More with Less, Fill in the Blank?

Posted on 2008/08/15 by ngilmour

Are you Going Forward?? Then Stop Now. Of course, being part of academic and church cultures, the first thing I thought when I read this is how suitable it would be for somebody to do an analogous piece on each … Continue reading →

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Time to Think

Posted on 2008/08/02 by ngilmour

No time to think? I was reading around as the library day wound down, and I stumbled upon this little piece on Arts and Letters Daily. (You didn’t think I found these little Internet nuggets on my own, did you?) … Continue reading →

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Stoooopid

Posted on 2008/07/21 by ngilmour

Stoooopid …. why the Google generation isn?t as smart as it thinks Yes, I know I post a fair number of articles about the Internet generation. (In fact, I just created a category, and I’ll likely spend some time reading … Continue reading →

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Frankly, I’m Disappointed I Didn’t Make the List

Posted on 2008/07/12 by ngilmour

Prospect Magazine’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals I have to be honest that I haven’t heard of most of these people. I suppose my diet of almost exclusively English-language texts might have something to do with that. Or the fact that … Continue reading →

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Weekly Standard’s Damage Control

Posted on 2006/12/18 by ngilmour

“Don’t Cry for Pinochet” His embrace of economic reform seems unlikely to have sprung from a commitment to freedom, given the overarching contempt for liberty that characterized the rest of his government. Rather, in order to insulate himself from the … Continue reading →

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