Two months ago I wrote of the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ efforts to “investigate” the supposed violation of academic freedom at overtly christian universities. Shortly thereafter CAUT approached my own employer, Redeemer University College, for the same reason. . . . . Continue Reading »
As The New York Times notes , “Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting” when University of Virginia social psychologist Jonathan Haidt polled the attendees at the Society for Personality and Social . . . . Continue Reading »
Although he doesn’t use the phrase, Douglas Wilson explains what happens when conservative’s lack a robust moral imagination : One of the biggest problems that conservatives have is that of sharing the liberal view of history. They both believe the same thing is inevitable, but one is . . . . Continue Reading »
T. Kenneth Cribb on the moral imagination of Ronald Reagan : In 1977 Reagan told Dick Allen, his long-time foreign policy advisor: “My idea about the Cold War is that we win and they lose.” It is almost impossible to convey to you today what an unthinkable thought that was in 1977, or in . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Kirk on the moral imagination : The moral imagination aspires to the apprehending of right order in the soul and right order in the commonwealth. This moral imagination was the gift and the obsession of Plato and Vergil and Dante. Drawn from centuries of human consciousness, these concepts . . . . Continue Reading »
So I just got in the mail the impressive newsletter from Pat Deneen’s Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown. Here’s its prosaic but kind of pithy summary of what I said there on Constitution Day: Dr. Peter Lawler argued that Locke’s ideas fit the Mystery Passage [ Planned Parenthood v. . . . . Continue Reading »
As Lutherans tend to do, Anthony Sacramone is starting his own religion . For those interested in joining, here are some items you’ll need to believe: 1. We believe that Pantu Baba, the Vile, the Irascible, the Arbitrary, eternal and almighty god of all that is was or ever shall be, has . . . . Continue Reading »
Some food for thought from today’s Wall Street Journal . . . . . Continue Reading »
Night Shyamalan’s film, Devil , his latest installment in his series of mythopoeic movies, gives the viewer the opportunity to glimpse ever so briefly the reification of a theosophical speculation that may have its roots in Boehme, where evil is rendered by a very real demon grimly determined . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, in our second On the Square essay, Patricia Snow reflects on the work of Diego Velázquez and what the recent discovery of a lost Velázquez painting at Yale University Art Gallery might tell us about the artist: If The Education of the Virgin is a Velázquez, it both integrates . . . . Continue Reading »
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