Before “The Benedict Option,” there was just Rod Dreher and his new book’s eponymous idea. But come March 14, the American Conservative blogger promises a full explanation of the murky term with “a strategy for Christians in a post-Christian nation.” Although Dreher delivers, his strategy tempts his audience to believe Christians can only survive modernity’s depravity by creating a “parallel...
Culture
Why aren’t Eastern religions in Hillsdale’s Classrooms
Hillsdale students are familiar with Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, but have they ever heard of Ibn-Sina, Nagarjuna, or Keiji Nishitani? Maybe, but they can’t thank Hillsdale College’s core curriculum for that knowledge. The core’s exclusion of Eastern traditions and religions most recently came under scrutiny when a reporter from The New York Times visited campus to write a profile of...
Lyceum lecture looks at the limits of language in life, learning, and Latin
Both doors of Lane 125 were open: students, faculty, and visiting parents filled every seat, leaned in the doorways, sat on the ground, slouched against the walls, drew up folding chairs. The panelists of the Lyceum’s March 3 “Liberal Arts Friday Forum,” on the limits of language, included Peter Blum, professor of philosophy and culture, Justin Jackson, professor of English,...
‘Kiss Me, Kate’: Did we kiss morality goodbye?
When I attended “Kiss Me, Kate” on Saturday night, I found it so wonderful that I returned again Sunday afternoon. All of the actors and actresses shone, and the pit and crew were wonderful. But I was shocked by the many references of an immoral nature made throughout the show, from broomsticks to the content of “Brush up your Shakespeare.”...
