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  • When Rudolph Meets Beowulf

    When Rudolph Meets Beowulf0

    One doesn’t need to be a Christian to enjoy Christmas. Or, to put it another way, even non-Christians can enjoy Christmas, if they embrace it in the broad Dickensian spirit of the Thing. Yes indeed. Everyone can enjoy Christmas. Or nearly everyone. There are, of course, always the Scrooges. Take, for instance, the Scrooges at

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  • When Reparations for Slavery Become Just Another Welfare Program

    When Reparations for Slavery Become Just Another Welfare Program0

    The idea that former slaves and their descendants ought to receive reparations for the wrongs committed against them is not new. Having grasped the fact that slavery is nothing less than kidnapping and theft committed against the enslaved, abolitionists long advocated for some form of redress for freed slaves. The most famous early attempt to

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  • When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide

    When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide0

    What happens when religious freedom affronts feminist sensibility? The question came to the fore earlier this month when female teachers at a high school in Germany boycotted the school’s graduation ceremony in protest at the refusal of a male Muslim student to shake hands with a female teacher on the grounds of modesty. Although the

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  • When Ralph Abernathy Took His Stand

    When Ralph Abernathy Took His Stand0

    The summer of 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of man walking on the moon.   Before Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” however, another significant event occurred: Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s protest outside of the Saturn V rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida.     On the afternoon of July 15, 1969,

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  • When Professors Stifle Freedom of Thought0

    Duke theology professor Paul Griffiths created a firestorm recently by criticizing time-consuming racial equity meetings that, in his view, detracted from research, teaching, and study: It’ll be, I predict with confidence, intellectually flaccid: there’ll be bromides, clichés, and amen-corner rah-rahs in plenty. When (if) it gets beyond that, its illiberal roots and totalitarian tendencies will show. He

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  • When Poets Were Rock Stars

    When Poets Were Rock Stars0

    • September 26, 2015

    Today we’re accustomed to crowds of 14,000 gathering for a concert or a sporting event.    Not for a poet reading a lecture on literary criticism.    But that indeed is what happened on April 30, 1956, when T.S. Eliot came to the University of Minnesota. He delivered his lecture “The Frontiers of Criticism” to

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