Professor Margaret O’Gara, a prominent Catholic ecumenical theologian, died on August 16 in Toronto at the age of 65. Prof. O’Gara spent her entire career as part of the Theology Faculty of the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, at the University of . . . . Continue Reading »
Civility in Argument Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse, Three Quarks Daily How Protestants Learned to Love the Pill Allan Carlson, Crisis The Economist’ s Strange Resurgence Aram Bakshian, The National Interest Contemporary Art: Not Enough Dionysian? Simon Critchley, The Brooklyn Rail . . . . Continue Reading »
Do Rawlsian principles of “political liberalism” demand the legal recognition of same-sex romantic partnerhips as marriages? I suspect that many of Rawls’s conservative critics, as well as his liberal supporters, would suppose that the answer must be yes. (For the conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I’m in Baltimore as a discussion leader on a conference on utopias—if anyone knows what’s really going on Aeschylus’ PROMETHEUS BOUND you need to let me now by 930 in the morning. It is true that all utopias that are real projects for reform are about “blind . . . . Continue Reading »
Among the shining experiences of my doctoral work was a genuinely transformational course: “Seminar in William Faulkner,” shepherded by Dr. Noel Polk, one of the world’s pre-eminent scholars, who passed away this past weekend.Non-Mississippians cannot fully understand how my . . . . Continue Reading »
We had a short but high quality thread yesterday on the media and the young. Carl noted that Chait’s column validates long-held conservative complaints about liberal bias in the media and Corey suggested that media liberals are following the George Lakoff’s advice to ignore rather . . . . Continue Reading »
If PP wants to secure its access to state money, it merely needs to bifurcate its abortionizing (to coin a term) from health care services such as pregnancy testing and STD screening, etc. But it won’t, so some states are trying to exclude PP from Medicaid payments. on the theory . . . . Continue Reading »
From the City Journal, this time, a full essay, with a title that says it all “City, Empire, Church, Nation.” Here’s a taste: During the premodern era, competing political forms—the city, the empire, and the Church—checked one another, so it was necessary to . . . . Continue Reading »
Consciousness. True self-aware consciousness: It is one of the exceptional attributes of human nature, present in all of us barring immaturity or injury. And scientists still can’t figure out what it is all about.An interesting study has recently found that even the areas of the . . . . Continue Reading »
I make way too many mistakes to play “gotcha” journalism. Yet the first paragraph in this Huffington Post blog entry did arrest my attention: Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate marks the first time in American history that no Protestant will appear on a . . . . Continue Reading »
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