For our readers in or near New York City, The Catholic Artists Society and the Thomistic Institute present a series of lectures on a Catholic understanding of the Arts. Eminent artists, theologians, and philosophers will be exploring the nature of art and its role in society. Hosted in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Crank Within Douglas Casson, Books & Culture Leszek Kolakowski, Jester and Priest John Connelly, The Nation A Land Without Sin Greg Garrett, Patheos Reform Congregations Reform the Bar Mitzvah Laurie Goodstein, New York Times An Evangelical Reviews Evangelical Catholicism Mark Noll, Comment . . . . Continue Reading »
Hugh Gillis, in the thread, was uncomfortable with being called a Kojevian, because that would imply he agrees with everything Alexandre said (and that, of course, would be impossible). He makes the important point that Kojeve mainly enjoyed people who disagreed with him—Aron, Strauss, and . . . . Continue Reading »
So alongside my rock songbook, I’m inaugurating here a new series about the American idea of liberty. I have a peculiar framework for thinking about the American idea of liberty, which I first developed for a class, but which I’m now hoping to develop into a book. Here is the beginning . . . . Continue Reading »
So in response to the modest demand that I say more about the Strauss-Kojeve panel at the APSA, here is another portion of my comments . In Hegel himself and in Kojeve sometimes—and, of course, in Fukuyama’s lullaby version of Kojeve—the philosophical observation that history has . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Schmitz has already pointed readers to Books & Culture’ s need for supporters to pledge a lot of money by Monday to keep publishing. Let me add my own encouragement. Books & Culture has an important place, a place only it can fill, in the world — the shrinking world . . . . Continue Reading »
My lame attempt to make this a genuinely disruptive cheer. . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Obama has been taken through the wringer. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against him on Syria, and his “not MY red line” remark, along with Joe Wilson’s “you lie” interjection, is one of those phrases that will permanently define his reputation. I . . . . Continue Reading »
1. My wife is in the late stages of pregnancy with our second child, so blogging is going to be light-to-nonexistent for a while. 2. I have some On The Square thoughts about how some kinds of respect for Obama’s words and the concerns of some Obama supporters could be used to defeat . . . . Continue Reading »
In his On the Square post today, Wesley J. Smith has come to tell the tale of the Death of Marriage. When did marriage die? In 1976, when the California Supreme Court ruled that non-married couples could sue each other for breach of contract, too : Then, Michele Triola Marvin sued the movie star . . . . Continue Reading »
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