Essential Shakespeare by Ted Hughes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Shakespeare + Hughes = Jackpot. This book is brilliant in its conception and stunning in its content. Part of the Ecco “Essential Poets” series, Hughes made a brilliant editorial decision: rather than simply anthologizing Shakespeare’s poetry (i.e., the sonnets), Hughes decided to de- and…
I’m pretty excited about a new book I co-edited with my friend and colleague, David Smith: Teaching and Christian Practices: Reshaping Faith and Learning, now available from Eerdmans. The book is a collection of case studies in which professors from a range of disciplines (including economics, physics, kinesiology, psychology, history, literature, and philosophy) extend and…
One could easily imagine a college recruiting and marketing department latching onto the quantifiable data compiled PayScale’s College Salary Report. The data paints a picture of starting and median salaries for graduates of over 1000 institutions across the United States. You can view the data by region as well (e.g., the Midwest). PayScale also offers…
A friend pointed me to this article on the “Mall-ification of America”–which dovetails with my analysis of the mall’s liturgies in Desiring the Kingdom, particularly highlighting the assimilation that happens when we naively adopt what we (wrongly) think are “neutral” forms. Consider these concluding paragraphs: There is some data to go on, though: According to…
From the completely random file: within just a couple of days I read a long essay on George W. Bush and then several obituaries for Steve Jobs and was struck by similarities in their leadership style–and how differently those similarities were evaluated. The first essay, “Dubya and Me,” by Walt Harrington, appeared in the Autumn…
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