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Café Cook

     A place to grab a cup of coffee and among other things, browse articles and videos of possible interest to Christians whose calling is be a part of the academic world.

     It is also a place (much lower on this page), to archive the contents of Connections Review's Café Cook beginning with Issue #8ff, when we first started including it.

Our Current Café Cook Offerings:


Research on Understanding Faculty and Academic Attitudes:


First Wave (late 50s):

          The Academic Mind

Second Wave (1990s-):

          Jewish Institute: Volume II: Religious Beliefs & Behaviors of College Faculty

          How Many Ward Churchills?

          The “Faculty Bias” Studies: Science or Propaganda?    

          Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony?

          The Ideological Profile of Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reply to Zipp and Fenwick

          What’s in a Grade? Academic Success and Political Orientation

          Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty

Third Wave (2006-):

          The Social and Political Views of American Professors. Google Document

          How Religious are American’s College and University Professors?

          The Religiosity of American College and University Professors

          Faculty Bias Studies (American Federation of Teachers)

See also:

Academic Bias (Wikipedia)

Faculty Partisan Affiliations in All Disciplines: A Voter-Registration Study (Cardiff & Klein)

Why are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservative Care? (Book, Neil Gross)

Bias Against Women in Academia History—A Propaganda Analysis (JSTOR)

Positivity Bias In Higher Education Research

Is There a Liberal Bias Among American Professors?

The Value of Ideological Diversity Among University Professors (Whittington)

The Politics of American Sociologists

Current Theoretical and Political Perspectives of Western Sociological Theorists (Semantic Scholar)

Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty (National Association of Scholars)

The Vanishing West 1964-2010: The Disappearance of Western Civilization from the American Undergraduate Curriculum (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Why Are Liberals So Condescending? (Washington Post)

The Wedge Driving Academe’s Two Families Apart? (Chronicle of Higher Education)


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Point of View or Op Ed Articles & Books


          How the Left Became so Intolerant (Heritage Foundation)

          Why Can’t the Sciences & the Humanities Get Along: The Wedge Driving Academe's Two Families Apart by D. Hollinger


Christians in Academe Who are doing Research on Academe (whose work is worth noting)


          Researcher on Beliefs Among Academic Scientists    

          Researcher on Religious Activists in State Level Politics


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Evangelism in Academe

          White Paper on Peer to Peer Journey Guidance Among Academics

          Mentoring the Journey: Topo #1


Academic Ambiance

Vanishing Act (Western Civilization Courses)

When God Comes To the Office


Science and Christianity

          On Naturalism

               What is Naturalism?  by Timothy Williamson

          Why I am a Naturalist   by Alex Rosenberg     

          On Ducking Challenges to Naturalism by Tim Williamson

          What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? by William Alston

          What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? (Lecture Notes)  by William Alston

          Introduction to Faith and Scholarship on our ACI site by Jim Cook


Heretic Naturalist Tom Nagel & Responders:

          Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (Tom Nagle)

An Author Attracts Unlikely Allies (NY Times Review)

Ferguson, Andrew. “Heretic” in The Weekly Standard.

Where Thomas Nagel Went Wrong (Chronicle of Higher Education Review)

Science Dismisses Nagel Book with Faint Praise  

Philosopher Thomas Nagel Goes the Way of Alvin Plantinga, Disses Evolution  

What’s Gotten Into Thomas Nagel? (National Post Review)

Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel  (The Nation)

Awaiting a New Darwin (New York Review of Books)

The Core of ‘Mind and Cosmos’  (The Opinionator Pages - NYT)

Thomas Nagel: Thoughts Are Real (The NewYorker)

No One Reads the Bible Literally by John Wilson (Calvin College)


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Café Cook Connections Review's Archive: (forthcoming)