From The Global Spiral, Mark D. Wood (VCU): Transdisciplinarity and the Development of an Integrated Model of Personhood, Health, and Wellness; Kathryn Johnson, Adam Cohen, Mariam Cohen, Barry Leshowitz (ASU): Ways of Knowing: The Scientific Study of Religiosity as Relationality; James M. Landry (LMU): Science Education for All: Moving from a Specialization Approach to a Holistic Approach; Martin Zwick (PSU): Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion' a review of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson; and an article on knowing the future.
From Modern Age, Richard Sherlock (Utah State): The Secret of Straussianism; an essay on Orwell and Catholicism; and a review of The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott by Terry Nardin; In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott by Efraim Podoksik; Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction by Paul Franco; The Limits of Political Theory: Oakeshott’s Philosophy of Civil Association by Kenneth B. McIntyre; and The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott.
From The Chronicle of Higher Education, Onward, Objectivism: Loyal scholars and organizations strive to perpetuate the philosophy of Ayn Rand in academe; a Rand-inspired foundation has money to give to humanities departments, but some won't touch it; and "Train Your Mind to Change the World": A new institution, born out of the individualistic philosophy of Ayn Rand, has gone its own way; and in rural India, an Ambitious Academic Vision: A mining mogul with big ideas is determined to build an elite, American-style university for 100,000 students in Orissa. Farmers, who own the land he wants to develop, plan to resist.
Revenge of the Frosh-Seeking Robots: The smartest college kids are rushing to major in economics. Microsoft is trying to lure them back to computer science. Colleges lost their way in the 1960s, contends Victor Davis Hanson, a classics professor. Students now get a "therapeutic curriculum" instead of learning hard facts and inductive inquiry. The result: we can’t answer the questions of our time. Too much self-esteem can be bad for your child: American schools stress self-esteem as the stepping stone to academic achievement. But students from Asian cultures, which place little stock in self-esteem, seem to do better than their American counterparts in school.
