Despite my best efforts at proofreading, I’m constantly amazed at how many typos I let slip onto this website. Fortunately, none of them have been as embarrassing as this missing letter on a post at TBD: (Via: The Daily What ) . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The Conference at Berry (funded by the U of Chicago project on the science of virtue) is drawing near (Nov. 4-5). You can hear about Descartes, Locke, Darwin, Percy, Tom Wolfe, George Grant, Heidegger, and much more. And of course you can meet Ralph Hancock, America’s leading theologian, . . . . Continue Reading »
In a reversal of a long-term trend , young adults with college degrees are now more likely to be married than those who receive less formal education: About 62 percent of college-educated 30-year-olds were married or had been married, compared with 60 percent of those without a bachelor’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The short answer is: Pelt Israel with unguided missiles from southern Lebanon. In today’s Spengler essay at Asia Times Online, I evaluate Iran’s susceptibility to cyberwar. The Islamic Republic pirates virtually all its software and almost all of its competent software engineers have . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square,” Elizabeth Scalia examines The Tolerance Disconnect , beginning with the high rate of abortion for children with Down Syndrome and the bullying of teenagers by their peers, and finds the rhetoric of tolerance inadequate. [T]his generation of teenagers has been . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Christian Century , Rodney Clapp has brief article on the brave and noble servicemembers who stand up against the practice of torture : Sergeant Joseph Darby is an army reservist who served as a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison. During his free time in Iraq, Darby shot photographs . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologian Albert Mohler has an interesting interview with influential sociologist Peter Berger: Mohler: For many years you’ve been at Boston University and your books have been so influential. I remember the Sacred Canopy as one of the earliest of your books that I read but had followed . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike poets , critical theorists sometime need a little help from computer programs to let language write them. Hence, this nifty little tool from the University of Chicago . Now everyone can write nonsensical sentences with no graduate school required! Via: Alan Jacobs . . . . Continue Reading »
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America today took action, in the words of Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson, to position “the churchwide organization to make a vital and vibrant contribution to the ministries of this [ELCA] church and the work of partners throughout the world . . . .” . . . . Continue Reading »
“It is also not surprising that the same viruses that infect the culture of narcissism infect the culture of total work,” writes Anthony Esolen in Woman of Leisure , combining insights from Christopher Lasch and Josef Pieper. . . . .And yet it is taken for granted, even by . . . . Continue Reading »
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