And I doubt that I’m even watching the debate tonight. I have to be up in the morning. 1. Read this Reihan Salam piece. Find the sophisticated jab at Obama’s bitter clinger comment. Just deadly in so many ways. 2. I keep reading and hearing about how hard . . . . Continue Reading »
His views on marriage are misguided , but Kevin Williamson’s lengthy and delightful look at homeschooling in the new National Review is delightful. Here are a few tastes: “People forget that some of the first homeschoolers were hippies,” says Bob Wiesner, a counselor at the Seton . . . . Continue Reading »
The Family Scholars blog has recently hosted a long discussion on civility with many of its resident writers. (Here are early contributions from Barry Deutsch , Amy Ziettlow , Ralph Lewis , Elizabeth Marquardt , and Fannie ; for others, visit the blog .) Their conversation spurred me to think . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the Islamic injunction against visual depiction of the sacred as thoroughgoing a taboo as many non-Muslims assume? Jamal J. Elias, plugging his new book Aisha’s Cushion at the Harvard University Press blog, says no : . . . there is a common understanding that the only broadly acceptable . . . . Continue Reading »
“Synagogues are contracting,” says Barak Richman professor of law and business administration at Duke University, “and American Judaism remains ossified in organizational structures that may have made sense in the 1950s but currently are unable to address contemporary . . . . Continue Reading »
Edward Skidelsky summarizes Philippa Foot’s argument against the common opposition between what is and what ought to be in an interview with the Browser : MacIntyre thinks that the notion of virtue has to be detached from Aristotle’s original ‘metaphysical biology’ as he . . . . Continue Reading »
From the “stories you’re not likely to see widely covered but probably should know about” department: the oldest and largest abortion clinic in New York City has closed after more than two decades of dedicated prayer, protest, and counseling outside its walls. And it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on America and the world : The foreign policy debate in the United States has often been peculiar, in that it’s not infrequently about the United States rather than the world. Throughout history, other great powers have thought about world politics in terms of national interest. . . . . Continue Reading »
Sound like fun? Maybe they’ll talk about “alterity” also! KC Johnson at Minding the Campus (H/T Instapundit) takes a look at the program for the 2013 American Historical Association conference, especially at the priceless paper titles . Did you know that 1945-1965 “saw the . . . . Continue Reading »
Gertrude Himmelfarb applies the insights and categories of the Victorian great William James to today’s religious scene in an interesting weekend piece for the Wall Street Journal . As she reports, in one widely reprinted 1896 lecture, James intended to respond to Harvard . . . . Continue Reading »
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