Joe Carter over at Evangelical Outpost has the numbers to put Iraq in perspective.
Archive for January, 2005
January 30, 2005
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Carter’s Index
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Outside Articles of Interest, War and Peace
January 30, 2005
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Gates and China
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Economics, Outside Articles of InterestPaul Musgrave over at In the Agora offers an interesting critique of Bill Gates’s recent speech at the World Economic Forum. Gates’s heralded Chinas as having a “brand new form of capitalism.” Musgrave, in response, writes: Similarly, Gates’s description of China, and in particular his admiration for the brainy, reflective scholar-administrators of China (I really [...]
January 30, 2005
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Success
By Matthew Lee Anderson in International Politics, PoliticsWho knows whether initial estimates of 70% will hold up, but clearly the majority of Iraqis turned out in favor of democracy. John Kerry, on Meet the Press, councils caution in celebrating today as a victory as democracy. President Bush, on the other hand, called it a “resounding success.” The contrast between the two men [...]
January 26, 2005
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Marital Blogging
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsIn order to answer the numerous inquiries about dates and times and every other detail imaginable, I have begun Marital Blogging, a blog dedicated to all things “Charity and Matt.” Okay, so it’s actually an outlet to vent about the pains of registering (the silver toaster or the white toaster???), but I may include interesting [...]
January 25, 2005
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And in other news:
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Words and LanguageTrinbagonians are united against yampee. Just in case you were wondering. Courtesy one of my new favorite sites.
January 25, 2005
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The problem with “Problem” – Part III
By Keith E. Buhler in Philosophy… There is one defense of the modern usage of the word that my housemate and award-winning debater put forth. “OK,” he said, “But ‘problem’ has a certain amount of intimidation value. If I can toss ‘the Problem of Evil’ at you, that has more force than, ‘the Question of Evil’, or worse yet, ‘How [...]
January 24, 2005
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Back to Biola
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Biola, EvangelicalismBiola has published an analysis and response to the NY Times Magazine piece of a few months ago that highlighted Biola. My brother wrote then that the Times write-up was an “accurate reflection of the tension between faith and secularism in the evangelical college experience.” The Biola response mostly agrees with this analysis. Peters writes, [...]
January 24, 2005
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The problem with “Problem” – Part II
By Keith E. Buhler in PhilosophyWhat is common to all of the cases mentioned below? Here is what I notice: They are all questions. (with the exception of the second “problem of evil” which was stated as a thesis) So in response to the question “Put what forward?”: We’re putting forth questions. Why not then call it”The question of evil,” [...]
January 21, 2005
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The problem with “Problem” – Part I
By Keith E. Buhler in PhilosophyWhy do we refer to things as “problems”? You may say I’m picky, but I think word choice is the most important thing… Plus the name you give a thing influences how in what way we’ll approach it. If we are naming things incorrectly, we will not approach them correctly, and given the kinds of [...]
January 21, 2005
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Why Education Sucks
By Keith E. Buhler in Education, Life in general“How were classes today?” “Fascinating.” I would bet large portions of my monthly income that the above conversation has not taken place between a high schooler and his parent in America for decades. Now I know why. I am writing a curriculum workbook for The Academy I wanted to give the students a quick intro [...]
January 21, 2005
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Transposition and introspection
By Keith E. Buhler in Quotations, Theology (Christian Life)Lewis in Weight of Glory makes the point that for any higher thing (like a three-dimensional cube) to be transposed onto a lower medium (like a two-dimensional piece of paper) two things must be true: a) the thing must lose something (in this case, a dimension) and b) in the lower medium, the transposition will [...]
January 21, 2005
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Plato’s Euthyphro versus Aristophanes’ The Clouds
By Andrew Selby in Literature, PhilosophyIt’s nice to be blogging again! Greek and Roman philosophy are on my mind… Plato’s Euthyphro recounts the conversation Socrates had with Euthyphro, a religious leader, just before his trial. It comes out that this man is also awaiting a trial: he is going to prosecute his very own father for letting one of his [...]
January 21, 2005
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The Warnies
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsAdrian Warnock, a “rising star” in the evangelical blogging sphere has begun handing out the “Warnies,” an award commending we’re not sure what, except that Warnock likes your blog or post. His first award? Torrey’s very own Dr. John Mark Reynolds. Reynolds’s posting has been sporatic recently, but is often entertaining. In his acceptance entry, [...]