For those interested in alternative political thinking, the “Red Tory” writer Philip Blond will be speaking at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service on Friday at 4:00. To register for his talk on “The Broken Society vs. the Big Society,” click . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent Gallup survey shows that Americans are evenly divided about whether government should do what it can to promote traditional values in society. This is only the fourth time in 26 Gallup measurements of the question since 1993 that support for government’s promoting of traditional . . . . Continue Reading »
Glen Scrivener notes how much of the King James Version owes to a man who, after being condemned as a heretic, was strangled and his body burnt: Computer analysis has revealed that more than three quarters of the King James Version can be traced directly to Tyndale (83% of the NT and 76% of the OT) . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s a good bit more than I noted in my first post . Consider, for example, these posts by Tom Beaudoin , who teaches theology at Fordham University (home to some of the Jesuit mentors of my youth). Here he speculates about the religious (or more properly, perhaps, . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s first On the Square feature, David G. Bonagura, Jr. notes the recent reactions to Pope Benedict XVI and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad : Within only a few hours on September 22, Pope Benedict XVI and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave major addresses in front of two . . . . Continue Reading »
The link between intelligence and correct interpretation of reality is unfortunately weak. That is one of the reason why someone like cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker can be very smart and yet be consistently wrong. Pinker champions his latest wrong idea in his new book, The Better Angels of Our . . . . Continue Reading »
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to Begin Homosexual Ordinations Institute on Religion & Democracy Raymond Tallis Takes Out the ‘Neurotrash’ The Chronicle Review , Marc Perry Why Our Constitution’s Silence on God Shouldn’t Be Confused with Atheism (Especially by Atheists) . . . . Continue Reading »
St. Paul Inside the Walls is hosting a forum on marriage in Madison, New Jersey on Thursday, November 10. Prof. Robert George, Prof. Helen Alvare and Sherif Grigis will address such questions as “What does the Catholic Church teach about marriage?,” “What are alternative views to . . . . Continue Reading »
Apple is a new religion, and Steve Jobs was its high priest by Michael S. Rosenwald: Steve Jobs was not religious. Although he dabbled in Buddhism (and acid), he never embraced the idea of organized religion, a fact that makes the Apple religion all the more ironic — particularly his place in . . . . Continue Reading »
I was just a bit surprised when I first heard that Ron Paul had won the straw poll at this year’s Values Voters conference, sponsored by the Family Research Council . After all, Paul would seem to be more than a bit too libertarian for most social conservatives. But all became clear . . . . Continue Reading »
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