A recent Wall Street Journal article by Richard Vedder and Christopher Denhart concludes, “Many poorly endowed and undistinguished schools may bite the dust, but America flourished when buggy manufacturers went bankrupt thanks to the automobile. The cleansing would be good for a higher education system still tied to its medieval origins – and f
Last week I was telling the Original Visitor about –
The Original Visitor: Hello. I’m back.
Last week I told about my conversation with Standish Wanhope (of course that's not his real name), my table mate at the opening dinner of a conference, who had pushed his atheism so aggressively throughout the meal.
People speak so much more preposterously in real life than in fiction. I used to write fictional dialogues for college students. Though I presented the dialogues as fictional, most were at least influenced by actual conversations, and a few of them were very nearly transcripts.
I was talking last week about the young man whom the experience of reading Aristotle’s Ethics had “scared.” In talking with him, I dropped the ball, and I promised to tell how.
How to Pronounce My Last Name
My surname, Budziszewski, is pronounced Boo-jee-shef-skee.
Bu = Boo
dzi = jee
szew = shef
ski = skee
People make interesting comments:
It's German, right?
I know a guy named Buchanan. Are you related?
Are you making that up?
It's Czech, right?
My post this week is a short one. I’ve been writing about the ways of bringing suppressed moral knowledge back to the surface. Last time I emphasized that these ways are merely illustrations, not magic tricks to be played on every audience, not use-on-all-occasions conversational stratagems. Sometimes, I said, the only thing to do is nothing – or what
Biola University, 2013