Another basket:

A cool piece on Nalanda University, "the world's first residential university."

A fun piece on "the dangers of a lingua franca in philosophy."  The problem is not only...

Because I'm on vacation this week and next, I'll be posting more of these "baskets of links" than I normally would.  I hope you find something interesting in each of them.

This is...

I am not a conservative theorist.  But in many ways, I could be.  I am a straight middle-aged white man married for almost twenty years with children, who is traditionally religious, reflexively...

One of the things that "religious studies" as an academic discipline does, for me anyway, is make me think about the ways that human beliefs, patterns of action, pictures of the world, practices...

Here are a few pieces from around the web that I've been enjoying this week:

A nice piece reflecting on the Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran.  What has it accomplished, and...

Not everything is for everyone. Platitudes like this are simultaneously the most eye-rollingly obvious critters running around the ecosystem of human language, but also, sometimes, when scrutinized...

Not much, unsurprisingly, according to this Pew report.  I see no reason to doubt the report, as it makes a great deal of sense.  The details are worth wandering through, but as this blog post point...

This website will be one I keep returning to.  It gathers together a great deal of work by and about Bernard Williams, a major anglophone philosopher of the twentieth century.

"Analytic...

An interesting piece on a new book that has to hack through a lot of cliches to get there.  Good lines: “the best of what the university has to offer lies less in its specific power to advance...

This piece has really got me thinking.  The idea that we're too passive in the face of things that want to claim our attention is an important one.  Here's a trick they offer, to get you to gain...