We give ourselves to BIG DATA with every trackable transaction and communication. ” Corporate competition to accumulate information about consumers is intensifying even as concerns about government surveillance grow, pushing down the market price for intimate personal details to fractions of . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t have time to discuss Yuval’s Bradley talk right now. Let me just say it’s a classy, forthright, and personal effort to strike the balance between gratitude and change we can believe in. Nothing’s more important than the perpetuation of our personal institutions . . . . Continue Reading »
Noted philosopher of the mind Colin McGinn is resigning from the University of Miami : Mr. McGinn . . . denies allegations that he behaved improperly. Those allegations were lodged by a female graduate student who has said that the professor sent her a series of sexually explicit e-mail and text . . . . Continue Reading »
Idealism and Blindness Leon Wieseltier, New Republic The Great Migration of the Church in This Land Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington Happy Birthday, Charles Kingsley Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, OUP Blog Our Francis, Too Timothy George, Christianity Today Easter in a Soviet Camp . . . . Continue Reading »
ethical and political thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »
The University Bookman has put forth a summer reading list which includes David Mills’ review of What Happened to Sophie Wilder Even though this book tells of a young woman’s conversion to Catholicism, a subject of natural interest to a convert, it is not a book I would have read, . . . . Continue Reading »
Adjunct faculty at Pacific Lutheran University have persuaded the National Labor Relations Board that they have the right to vote on whether to be represented by the Service Employees International Union. While the Supreme Court has held that religious institutions are generally outside NLRB . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, maybe not lose, so much as lose by huge margins. I think that Republicans would have trouble winning a plurality of the youth vote even if they did everything right, but losing the youth vote by twenty-three points at a time of elevated youth unemployment is just brutal. The College . . . . Continue Reading »
My sister-in-law recently alerted me to a humorous announcement in the bulletin of her Catholic parish. The priest of Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Hammond, LA, would like for his parishioners to know: PLANS FOR PARISH SWIMMING POOL SCRAPPED! After much study, our finance committee has determined . . . . Continue Reading »
The Solitary Leaker David Brooks, New York Times When the Lamps Went On Kenneth Minogue, Wall Street Journal The Welsh Town of Bookstores Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today Modesty is Honesty Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic A Haredim Reality Show Liel Leibovitz, Tablet . . . . Continue Reading »
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