The late Robert Bellah’s work , like Philip Rieff’s, “revolves around a similar premise, and a similar problem,” wrote Wilfred McClay (a longtime member of our advisory council) in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2006, on the occasion of the publication of The . . . . Continue Reading »
In his On the Square this morning , Russell E. Saltzman reports on a curious proposal in Utah: Utah state senator Aaron Osmond has proposed eliminating compulsory public school education. He is a member of the senate’s education appropriations committee. Critics suggest—among other . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I will be speaking at a BIG-TIME PANEL at the APSA against NSF funding for political “scientists.” This is on the basis of a quicky blog that was linked here and there as an example evilthinking. I could bring up the noetic heterogeneity issue. But it seems to me that the expanded . . . . Continue Reading »
Sea Change Lewis H. Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly Forgiveness Wins: The Perversity of the Prodigal Father Cosmos in the Lost Conservative Catholics and the New Pope Ross Douthat, Evaluations Out of the Antiworld James Kalb, Intercollegiate Review How Seminal Was Burke? Simon Heffer, Standpoint . . . . Continue Reading »
Chris Christie’s attack on Rand Paul - where Christie complained about piddling “esoteric” libertarian concerns voiced by people who were too cowardly to face “the widows and the orphans” of 9/11 -reminded me of something, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It . . . . Continue Reading »
Or, a libertarian might say, why am I so afraid to be paid what I’m WORTH . . . . . Continue Reading »
In a follow-up to last week’s piece on America’s international efforts for religious freedom, George Weigel lays out some of the reasons for Washington’s placidity while religious minorities suffer in Egypt, Nigeria, China, Indonesia, and around the world: Lack of strategic . . . . Continue Reading »
In this morning’s On the Square , Andrew Doran reminds us of the tribulations the Russian people have suffered in the past century. In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, seems incomprehensibly remote: “The entire twentieth century,” Solzhenitsyn observed in his 1983 . . . . Continue Reading »
The eminent, often iconoclastic, sociologist Robert Bellah passed away in recent days at the age of eighty six. The cause of death was apparently complication from a minor surgery. While Bellah was not a young man, when I saw him last December he was physically sturdy and mentally vigorous. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ignatius’ Magnanimity P. Bracy Bersnak, Crisis Generation Peak-Teen Danny Dorling, New Statesman “Decontaminating the Brand”? Damian Thompson, Telegraph Aristotle Can’t Refute Evolution Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse The Rise of the Chicken Little Evangelical Blogger . . . . Continue Reading »
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