Interesting how things can work in today’s soundbite culture. (I should preface this with a disclaimer that this post does not not advocate O’Donnell as a candidate. For one, I think it would be better to have representatives who didn’t fudge their academic backgrounds, as she is alleged to have done.) That said, I just [...] Read more »
Prosperity and Lack of Motivation
Thomas Friedman has managed to publish a good op-ed in the NYTimes, one in which he looks at America’s shrinking status as a superpower and persistent educational failings (building off two other recent pieces, this one by Michael Hirsh and this one by Robert Samuelson) and ultimately concludes that the real problem has been a [...] Read more »
Political Values and Religion: American Jews and “Anti-Israel” Policies
A friend linked me to an article the other day that asked (and tried to answer, from a right-wing perspective) the question, “Where Do Jews and Christians on the Left Get Their Values?” In the article, Dennis Prager argues that “Leftism” (which he capitalizes) should be understood as a secular religion; in essence, he argues [...] Read more »
Conservative or Liberal? Why Biblioblogs Should Not be Labeled
The good folks over at the Top 50 Biblioblogs have suggested that they may reinstate the categorization of biblioblogs from “very conservative” to “very liberal.” I think such a categorization is extraordinarily problematic and should be avoided (like one avoids poison) for several reasons: 1) It can have the effect of “ghettoizing” various blogs. People [...] Read more »
Liberals Aren’t the Only Ones Who Tweak the Text
The Huffington Post is reporting (via Beliefnet and other sources) an astonishingly brazen project put forth by conservapedia.com (which itself could leave someone speechless): the “Conservative Bible Project.” This project undertakes to eliminate “liberal bias” from the Bible, since the proponent(s) of this project suggest that modern Bible translations are dominated by just such liberalism. [...] Read more »