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Vampire Weekend and the Evangelical Comedown 22 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Call it the evangelical comedown. We don’t talk about it often, but when we do, it’s a tough topic among my friends. I find to my surprise, in a city as diverse as Nashville, that apart from all super...
How We’ve Traded Great Stories for Anecdotes 8 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
Storytelling is a central element of the Christian faith. From the story that unfolds over the thousands of years recorded in the Old and New Testaments, to Jesus’ use of parables, to the common pract...
Not So Great: A Follow Up to “Gatsby and the Whole Damn Bunch” 5 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Editors Note: Jonathan Povilonis’ essay on The Great Gatsby, posted here on Patrol a few weeks ago, was picked up on Andrew Sullivan’s blog “The Dish” and accompanied by anonymous criticism of Povilon...
Rachel and Brett, You’re Both Wrong 1 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
Let’s begin with an analogy. Picture, if you will, a meeting of the National Honor Society at Evangelical Christian Academy (school mascot: The Great Lion). These are the good kids. The teachers’ pets...
Rorty, Heidegger, and The New Republic: A Counter-Example 24 Jul 2013 | 01:08 am
A few weeks ago I posted a strongly-worded critique of American intellectual magazines for what I see as their tendency to publish simplistic, moralistic reviews of European philosophy. I complained t...
Virginia Heffernan, Creationism and Deconstruction 20 Jul 2013 | 12:56 am
There’s almost nothing as frustrating to someone who studies European philosophy of the 1960s-70s as the sheer volume of idiotic things that are written everywhere, from academic journals to science b...
Gatsby and The Whole Damn Bunch 18 Jul 2013 | 12:20 am
The cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby (1925) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I insisted on rereading The Great Gatsby before seeing the new film version partly because I hardly remembered anyt...
Be Employable, Get a Humanities Degree 12 Jul 2013 | 08:21 pm
This article has been republished a couple of places and makes a couple of good points about the value of philosophy for people who want to do journalism. It also has a strange holier-than-thou tone, ...
Good American Liberals vs. Violent European Radicals 3 Jul 2013 | 04:02 am
If you’re an American man of letters of the sort that currently gets called upon by places like The New Republic and The New York Review of Books to diagnose European philosophers, you have a fairly e...
Bottoms Up, Believers! 26 Jun 2013 | 12:11 am
Image courtesy ChristianReader.com When I was growing up, it was pretty well understood that Christians — real, committed, Bible-believing, what today some would shorthand “evangelical,” Christians —...
