(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) I desperately wanted to like Henry Poole is Here, as all the ideas in the film are so worth considering. I also wanted to really like it because it is a film of my favorite genre, one which I have been covering for years in obscurity, that being Non-Canonical […]
The Other Journal’s Dan Rhodes interviews Stanley Hauerwas about the state of education and the role of theology in the modern research university.
In this interview, Suresh Canagarajah discusses global English education and changes taking place in the field.
(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) Spike Lee’s dolly shots in 25th Hour may be the best post-9/11 commentary on film – shocked minds drifting to and fro among aftermath. At first, pulling Anna Paquin and Philip Seymour Hoffman through a Manhattan nightclub on dollies seems contrived, not out of sync with New York nightlife. But […]
(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) “According to a new gospel of ugliness, there is already more Junkspace under construction in the 21st century than survived from the 20th…” “God is dead, the author is dead, history is dead, only the architect is left standing.” – Rem Koolhaas Junkspace, a term coined by architect Rem Koolhaas, […]
In this personal essay, Patricia Westerhof questions her life as a teacher, especially the slow, thankless work of grading papers.
In this poem, Lee Passarella muses on the education of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, an artist who one hundred years after his death still has his ardent admirers and his ardent critics.
Jude Joseph Lovell describes his evolving relationship with the music of the Innocence Mission.
In this essay, Ben Suriano responds to Jon Stanley’s claim that there are at least two (very biblical) ways that every Christian would do well to “quite rightly pass for an atheist.” The essay argues that every Christian should rather “quite rightly pass for a Christian” because the predominant form of atheism is in fact the core metaphysical and ontological assumption that makes possible the imperial logics operative in both the Roman and modern order.