Elizabeth Scalia on the age of technology and ideology : Self-idolization is a natural by-product of the instrumentalization of our age, and it is weakening us. The GPS destroys our sense of direction; social scientists cripple our instinctive knowing. The world says True North is a relative . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m glad that Matthew Schmitz posted excerpts yesterday from the statement released by Southern Baptist leaders regarding recent reports about religious freedom in the military. Russell Moore (familiar to FT readers), president-elect of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Student loan debt is scary. That’s the message of this video. In B-movie style, this short film dramatizes that many young Americans are suffocating under their student loans and other debts. The problem is all too real, but most Americans still take out student loans without a thought. . . . . Continue Reading »
The NRA of the Left Kirsten Powers, Daily Beast René Girard: Who Is This Guy, Anyway? Caleb Nelson, Juicy Ecumenism Has Debating the Enlightenment Become Stale? Ollie Cussen, Prospect Seventeenth Century Russians in Twenty-First Century Alaska Wendi Jonassen and Ryan Loughlin, Atlantic For . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval Levin has some eminently sensible suggestions for how to improve the Gang Of Eight’s immigration bill. Levin’s suggestions include mandating the near-term adoption of E-Verify for all employees, eliminating the guest worker program and shifting future immigration toward high-skill . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum , University of Michigan law professor Dan Crane has been doing an interesting series of posts on the under-representation of Evangelicals within America’s legal elite. Dan notes that Evangelicals do not seem overly bothered by the fact that . . . . Continue Reading »
!. So, as you can see on the thread below about PHILOSOPHICAL SECTARIANISM, the blog is pretty good way of learning about philosophy. The conversation is enhanced by the fact that you can read (or not just hear) what others have to say and take your sweet time before responding. Please join in. The . . . . Continue Reading »
R. R. Reno on capitalism and conservatism : Freedom creates problems. It’s a good thing, often rightly encouraged, but it has costs. This is true of political freedom, as the Founders recognized, which is why they feared pure democracy. It’s also true of moral freedom: see the decline of . . . . Continue Reading »
Somehow I have dropped the habit of reading the comics in our daily paper, and I really should try to re-acquire it. (Now there’s a suggestion for summer reading to add to Collin Garbarino’s list: read the comics! But do it all year ‘round.) I do usually catch the color . . . . Continue Reading »
I spent a year of my life living as Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby , after I had answered a simple newspaper ad: “Waterfront 1BR Cottage. $215 mo. Refs. Req.” The landlord was an expatriate Polish aristocrat, regal in his every fiber. The tiny cottage was a wonder, . . . . Continue Reading »
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