The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript Reed Johnson, New Yorker Faith and the Visual Imagination Rowan Williams and Neil MacGregor, Telegraph A Well-Tempered Universe Br. Humbert Kilanowski, O.P., Dominicana The Great Second-Half 2013 Book Preview Editors, The Millions When the Rock Splits to Pieces . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE . It, of course, features a long chapter on me that might also have been called Rawls and Transhumanism. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s Harvey Mansfield on the Jaume book discussed below, not so much highlighting the bad , but more the not-up-to-snuff : M. Jaume’s book excels in the introduction of figures in Tocqueville’s lifetime, now forgotten, such as Frédéric Le Play, Silvestre de Sacy, . . . . Continue Reading »
Brief review by British Tocqueville scholar Jeremy Jennings at Standpoint of this book . Can’t get the link for the review to work, so search for it yourself. The Good: Tocqueville as Pascalian Most intriguing of all is Jaume’s examination of Tocqueville’s relation to Pascal and . . . . Continue Reading »
According to the Washington Post, Luis V. Gutierrez quoted Paul Ryan as saying ““You’re a Catholic; I’m a Catholic; we cannot have a permanent underclass of Americans exploited in America,” Ryan is absolutely right, which is why Gang of Eight-style immigration reform is . . . . Continue Reading »
This past Saturday, the 2.2 million strong Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod announced the re-election of Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison as President. President Harrison was first elected in 2010. The same convention which elected him also adopted new policies for the election of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The King’s College “can seek perhaps no better model than Carl F. H. Henry, “ on whom Gregory A. Thornbury, the recently-announced incoming president of the King’s College, “happens to be an expert and happens to have just written a book.” says Gene Fant . . . . Continue Reading »
“Medicalizing our social problems isn’t healthy. It undermines personal responsibility and renders important character-building virtues such as self-restraint and discipline hopelessly passé,” says Wesley J. Smith in today’s column . “Lowering expectations for . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, here is the great question that has gripped me about the Egyptian coup; would there have been democracy tomorrow if not a coup of the democratically elected Islamists yesterday? Ken Masugi asks, “Was the anti-Morsi coup in Egypt justified on liberal and democratic grounds?”He . . . . Continue Reading »
Faith Lights Life George Weigel, National Review Deadlines Meghan O’Rourke, New York Times The Rise of the Machines Meredith Hindley, Humanities Without Words to Describe Helen Alvaré, Public Discourse Localism, Globalization, and Moral Progress Dylan Pahman, Ethika Politika . . . . Continue Reading »
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