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A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam? (Wall Street Journal 9-1-10)
The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about the nature of Islam. We asked six leading thinkers—Anwar Ibrahim, Bernard Lewis, Ed Husain, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Tawfik Hamid and Akbar Ahmed—to weigh in.
Boys 'being held back by women teachers' as gender stereotypes are reinforced in the classroom (UK Daily Mail 9-1-10)
From the article:
Women teachers are holding back boys by reprimanding them for typically male behaviour, according to a study out today.
They are reinforcing stereotypes that boys are ‘silly’ in class, refuse to ‘sit nicely like the girls’ and are more likely to indulge in ‘schoolboy pranks’.
Women teachers may also unwittingly perpetuate low expectations of boys’ academic achievement and encourage girls to work harder by letting them think they are cleverer.
Deep-fried beer invented in Texas (UK Telegraph 8-31-10)
Last year's winner of the Texas state fair fried food competition was a recipe for deep-fried butter.
Book Review of Mark C. Taylor's Crisis on Campus (Wall Street Journal 8-31-10)
Are we living in a designer universe? (UK Telegraph 8-31-10)
The creators of the world were closer to men than to gods, argues John Gribbin
Plato’s Pop Culture Problem, and Ours by Alexander Nehamas (NY Times 8-29-10)
From the article:
This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on a case that may have the unusual result of establishing a philosophical link between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Plato.
“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?”: America's misguided culture of overwork (Salon 8-25-10)
from the article:
Germany's workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life. How did we get it so wrong?
The Humanities for Love, Not Money (NY Times 8-25-10)
by Patricia Cohen
WHEN the renowned educators Mortimer J. Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins first decided to expand their Great Books course beyond the University of Chicago’s walls, they recruited some of Chicago’s most prominent businessmen. In what was called the Fat Men’s Great Books Course, the executives and their wives started meeting every other Friday evening in the fall of 1943 to discuss Plato, Shakespeare and Goethe.
Doctors without religious beliefs more likely to help patients to die
The Lindenwood Philosophy Department is a healthy and growing department that now has three professors with diverse specialities, offering students the opportunity to sample the world of philosophy in many interesting ways.