Fall is here, arguably the best time for listening to classical music . . . But “the season” of my Rock Songbook remains in the Spring of folk-rock, the 63’-67’ era of proto-hippie expectancy. The last post, if you missed it, gave you my favorite post-1960s folk-rock songs , the . . . . Continue Reading »
A post yesterday by my St. John’s colleague Marc DeGirolami about Augustine’s two cities—the earthly and heavenly—reminded me of something I read in Peter Brown’s recent book on wealth in ancient Rome. Brown argues that a decisive shift in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Dinan of Holy Cross comments: I think that the biggest difference between Hegel and Kojeve (or at least Kojeve’s Hegel) is that Hegel’s philosophy of absolute spirit doesn’t make a whole lot of sense without Christianity, whereas Kojeve thinks that Christianity can be . . . . Continue Reading »
The major media has, as per usual, made a mess of its coverage of Pope Francis’ now famous or infamous interview, published in this country in the Jesuit weekly America with the title A Big Heart Open to God . A mess, at least, from the point of view of anyone who reads the interview and . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Glenn T. Stanton wants to talk about The Youth—or, rather, the misrepresentation of the youth by others: Popular doom and gloom media reports also do not make a distinction between young people leaving the church and young people simply converting to other . . . . Continue Reading »
In a widely covered interview , Pope Francis asked Catholics to stop speaking out on abortion, contraception, and gay marriage. This signaled a wholesale change in the Church’s stance toward the world, an opening of windows to let in the air, a banishment from the religious sphere of any . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter recently said to his Big Think readers “It really is true that you don’t know much about how the Constitution works even today if you haven’t read them.” By “them” he meant The Federalist Papers . But of course, not all of them. Some Great Books must be read . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Scruton’s Church Brian Miller, Juicy Ecumenism The Vanity of American Exceptionalism Richard Gamble, Reason Typical American Family Makes Less Now Than in 1989 Neil Irwin, Wonkblog Perseverance Pays Off for Yankees’ Pitcher Trent Beattie, National Catholic Register Frog’s . . . . Continue Reading »
So one of the most annoying features (one to which I contributed) of the Strauss-Kojeve panels was this constant comment: I’m not going to address the difficult question of to what extent and in what ways Kojeve agrees and disagrees with the actual Hegel. Although Strauss himself was big on . . . . Continue Reading »
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