The Great Purge encouraged Hook’s increasing ambivalence toward Marxism. In 1939, Hook formed the Committee for Cultural Freedom, a short-lived organization that set the stage for his postwar politics by opposing “totalitarianism” on the left
I agree with you regarding operational procedure in science. Of course, as we both realize, there are some non-mechanistic presuppositions behind the whole scientific endeavor, but once they become part of the scientific Weltbild, then
I’m kind of in awe of the teachers that I’ve been sitting in on, in my recent activity of being a substitute teacher aid at different schools in the Evergreen district. Nonstop human interaction —
The properties of DNA as both an agent of constancy and heritable change mean that populations are not entirely genetically stable: they can change over time, though the features of DNA that make it a
The cuts are part of Microsoft’s shift from its traditional approach of licensing its Office software and other programs for a one-time fee tied to a single computer. The company is now concentrating on selling
Columbian article raises lots of questions of the sort that are discussed in civics class or Social Studies. I have read that Portland had a strong KKK presence at one time. ‘The Pacific Northwest has
Her parents drew much of their philosophy from Mr. Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles, which issued detailed formulas for what he viewed as right living. That included everything from marriage (abstain from sex for
In theological terms, his achievement (Reinhold Niebuhr) was to perpetuate the old liberalism, adapting it to the civic religion of the 1950s, when anticommunism became a kind of national faith. (This civic faith led to
But I have grown in my appreciation of how important it is for the church to have a communal sense of identity, and how hard that is to come by without something like a creed.
In this way, Christians can fully recognize the human processes (whatever they may have been) that led to the formation of Scripture. At the same time, their convictions about God’s providence should lead Christians to