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Keep history honest. Please.
I read a hilarious satire on the rewriting of Roald Dahl’s language in new editions of his books. The article, titled “A Modest Proposal for Revisionist Gothic Literary Thoughtcrimes Against Wokespeak,” offers revisions…
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Revival
I’ve been following the testimonies and news stories about the revival at Asbury University over the last few weeks. It began with a routine chapel service a week ago Wednesday, and it’s been…
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Be not conformed
Yesterday, I revisited my favorite discussion of Lewis’s space trilogy, David Downing’s Planets in Peril. A book-length critical study, it draws together numerous perspectives on the novels, includes a lengthy bibliography, and gives…
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Prayer Poetry
I’ve been tuned into the discussion about ChatGPT in recent weeks, wondering what the impact will be of unleashing such a powerful chatbot in the academic, creative, and professional realms. But in one…
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ChatGPT: Friend or Foe?
ChatGPT has made waves over the last few weeks because it’s the most high-performing AI-powered chatbot yet created. Able to produce natural, human-sounding prose, it’s raised alarms in the academic world because students…
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Book Review: How It Went
As I read Wendell Berry’s latest collection of short stories How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership, I thought often of a passage from his Memory of Old Jack.…
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Incrementalism
As regards the powers manifested in the aeroplane or the wireless, Man is as much the patient or subject as the possessor, since he is the target both for bombs and propoganda… What…
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Recent (and not so recent) reads
Current and Completed My family is reading this book together now. It’s about how to recover after the Covid years, and it’s prompting some great discussions. For me personally, it’s been a blast…
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The Collective
It is not a question of causing the human being to disappear, but of making him capitulate, of inducing him to accommodate himself to techniques and not to experience personal feelings and reactions.…
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Lewis the Social Prophet
There is a crowd of busybodies. . . whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,”…