What’s That You Say? Bring Back the Weirdness?
by Sally ThomasOkay. Are you happy now? via Ship of Fools . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay. Are you happy now? via Ship of Fools . . . . Continue Reading »
The new elitism includes everybody on the condition that they include everybody. Of course, that turns about to be almost nobody, which is why the those who preach inclusion can remain so smugly elitist. . . . . Continue Reading »
Upon reading the claim by a New York Times art critic that in looking at a painting “to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial,” the incomparable Tom Wolfe wrote in his book The Painted Word : Then and there I experienced a flash known as the Aha! Phenomenon, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading bioethics literature is sometimes a challenging task. Bioethics-ese is replete with buzz words, such as “rich,” “robust,” “fruitful,” etc. The verbiage often seems self-congratulatory and frequently masks some hard-edged and very radical . . . . Continue Reading »
We start Monday, and not a moment too soon, in my view. I’ve spent the last two days scheduling everyone’s reading and other work from now till Christmas, using the lesson-plan feature at Homeschool Reporting, the record-keeping service to which we’ve subscribed since the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been cogitating on the hysterical condemnation yesterday by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities against the “heinous form of intellectual violence” supposedly inflicted against bioethicists such as Ezekiel Emanuel by Obamacare critics. Here’s the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. We want to be at home, and we want to be free. We want to fit into something larger than ourselves, something real and meaningful and permanent; and we want to control our destiny, to create something meaningful and to express our unique personality. We want to be a part, and we want to be a . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, Joe Carter praised The Atlantic s forthcoming (mammoth) article on health care as one of the most sensible and pragmatic articles on the health care debate youre likely to ever read. I couldnt agree more. Goldhills analysis is even-handed and thorough. . . . . Continue Reading »
Randal Rauser, a professor of theology at Taylor Seminary, Edmonton, Canada, argues that every area of life requires a faith commitment : At the end of his tremendously irritating film Religulous, Bill Maher states that Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. With . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Harvard Business blog , Gill Corkindale wonders whether it is realistic to expect work to make us happy: According to Swiss philosopher Alain de Botton, we are living in a unique era, when we are encouraged to seek happiness through work. The idea of work as a source of fulfillment has been . . . . Continue Reading »