Every summer the Witherspoon Institute offers a seminar on the Moral Foundations of the Law, open to rising 2L and 3L students in law school, as well as those in LLM and JSD programs (and we’ve been known to have students in the seminar studying jurisprudence in other disciplines, like . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s my weekly breakdown of readings for CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT, which begins next week. Thanks to Flagg Taylor for giving me a one-book resource (THE GREAT LIE—what a perfect collection!) on ideology and totalitarianism, which, in fact, I have never taught . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, I asked if anyone wanted to join me on Facebook in reading Augustine’s City of God. The response overwhelmed me. I hoped about 30 people would join me, but the group currently has about 1,300 members. We’re having some lively discussion. I hope we can keep up the momentum . . . . Continue Reading »
The Hagia Sophia Conspiracy TheoryKaya Genc, Paris ReviewPeriod PieceBrian P. Kelly, Weekly StandardWhen Schools Appropriate Religious EducationLeah Libresco, American ConservativeMillennial Insecurity Runs Washington, D.C.Michael Hendrix, Mere OrthodoxyHow Primitive Sociology Is Killing the Church . . . . Continue Reading »
A new semester dawns with new responsibilities, and I need to wrap up this series of meditations on Genesis for the time being. Yesterday’s post can serve as a good summary of where I’ve been. What I want to do today is look back to the beginning of the series and then ahead to where I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
To give credit where it is due, a group of House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama explaining that the Senate immigration bill the president supports would sharply increase low-skill immigration and put downward pressure on the wages of low-skill Americans and low-skill noncitizen . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Square today. Sorry for being late, but I just got the time to . . . . Continue Reading »
At Postmodern Conservative, we have unwinnable wars, Tocqueville, climate change (of a sort), the Robert Gates memoir, depressing charts, and depressing reading.Peter Leithart is reading about: Kierkegaard, forgetful babies, Romanticism, John Caputo, and the Reformation. He’s also still . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Commentary, Seth Mandel pays tribute to the late (and much missed) Richard John Neuhaus by writing a little about Neuhaus’ last book, American Babylon:My preference among Neuhaus’s works for American Babylon is because it grapples with the subject of living in religious exile and . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend called my attention to this piece, asserting the waning of “fundamentalism.” Or is it the growth of atheism? Here’s how it begins: Days may be dark right now—after all, as the memes proclaim, axial tilt is the reason for the season. But things are looking . . . . Continue Reading »
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