The arts and public funding
Ken Myers answers a letter from a high school student asking about whether Christians should support the idea of federal funding for the arts.
The Necessity of Tradition
“If a society wishes to find a way of ensuring that newly emergent and valuable techniques are passed on and preserved, its members must feel themselves under an ethical obligation to leave the best possible world not only for their children, but also for their grandchildren.”
The Truth about Harvard
Ross Douthat looks at the effects of postmodern academic theory on the humanities. “The retreat into irrelevance is visible all across the humanities curriculum.”
Free trade zone for preferences
Philip Turner examines “the subversion of Christian belief and practice by the logic of autonomous individualism”