Since I have been writing on the theme of conformity, dissidence and blogging, perhaps a few belated words about The American Prospect‘s termination of Brendan Nyhan’s blogging at their site are in ...

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It’s hard to be piercingly heterodox when heterodoxy is the culture’s orthodoxy—heterodoxy of a certain sort, anyway. Heterodoxy is not inherently instructive, accurate, or interesting. It’s pure ...

Dear Helen: No doubt, this letter might come as a bit of surprise to you since it had been quite a while since we last communicated. It is my considered opinion that this letter might ameliorate the ...

There is truth to the cliché that academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low. But the stakes might not be as low as we think. Recent polling data from the Brookings Institution ...

Up until this pontificate, Synods never used to be the overwrought affairs they are today. In fact, they used to be a joy to cover – they brought interesting Church leaders to Rome, were usually held ...