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Paul Krugman on Credentials and Credibility

This is a little rich coming from Paul Krugman, but he correctly announces that the monopoly on public discourse once held by owners of institutional credentials has broken for good (and for the good). The classic canons are still in force, but are now, as it were, open source. In the internet-based new republic of letters, […]

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Al Mohler on the Digital World and the “Real World”

In an address meant to encourage Christians to have a faithful digital presence, Dr. Al Mohler makes this statement: Leaders who talk about the “real world” as opposed to the “digital world” are making a mistake, a category error. While we are right to prioritize real face-to-face conversations and to find comfort and grounding in […]

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Archive Nota Bene Steven Wedgeworth

The Internet and Religious (De)-Conversions

Larry Alex Taunton posts some helpful observations about the factors which play into young people’s conversions to atheism. Perhaps the most important one comes at the end: The internet factored heavily into their conversion to atheism When our participants were asked to cite key influences in their conversion to atheism – people, books, seminars, etc. […]

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The New Archive

Jordan Ballor, looking at the excellent example of the PRDL, gives a brilliant but too-brief consideration of the production and use of electronic archival instruments, and their meaning for learning, here. But if the reach of our ectypal bibliographies comes increasingly closer to our ideal archetypal bibliographies, the challenge is for our grasp to sufficiently […]