Comments on: Jean Bethke Elshtain on Judging

By: Jean Bethke Elshtain on the Experts » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:13:56 +0000

[...] the past several days we’ve revisited some of Jean Bethke Elshtain’s many fine contributions to [...]

By: peg

peg — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:20:17 +0000

On the supposed virtue of constant open-mindedness, I recall the remark, “her mind was so open, her brain fell out”. I think it was Garrison Keillor who said it.

By: Jean Bethke Elshtain’s ‘Newtape Files’ » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:04:41 +0000

[...] in the pages of First Things in 1993. (This pre-Erasmus Lecture series on her writing began here and [...]

By: Jean Bethke Elshtain on Paranoid Feminists » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:04:10 +0000

[...] 5, 2012 Anna Williams To continue preparing for Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Erasmus Lecture by revisiting her many contributions to First Things, I recommend her 1992 review of Susan Faludi’s book [...]

By: Mike Melendez

Mike Melendez — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:19:32 +0000

I judge this to be an excellent post.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:53:42 +0000

One notes how judgmental all that non-judgmentalism is. Don’t you dare judge people.

By: Elmo

Elmo — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:59:24 +0000

This post reminded me of a fine quote by Chesterton:
“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”