David Brooks writes in a recent New Yorker piece: “Fetuses who have been read ‘The Cat in the Hat’ while in the womb suck rhythmically when they hear it again after birth, because they recognize the rhythm of the poetry.” . . . . Continue Reading »
BB Warfield points out that the church’s confession of the Trinity is embedded in the church’s conviction that God Himself had appeared as Jesus: “It was in the coming of the Son of God in the likeness of sinful flesh to offer Himself a sacrifice for sin; and in the coming of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Bavinck again on the Spirit’s role in creation: “At the beginning that Spirit moved upon the face of the waters (Gen. 1:2), and He remains active in all that was created.” He expands the point this way: “By that Spirit God garnishes the heavens (Job 26:13), renews the face . . . . Continue Reading »
Bavinck, pre-channeling Jenson: “What the Christian goes on to confess about that God is not summarized by him in a number of abstract terms, but is described, rather, as a series of deeds done by God in the past, in the present, and to be done in the future. It is the deeds, the miracles, of . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent piece in The New Yorker , Malcolm Gladwell questioned whether Twitter and similar technologies will have the political efects that many presume. Now Evgeny Morozov raises the same question in a book-length treatment ( The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom ). According to . . . . Continue Reading »
In an essay on the philosophical significance of modern science, Heidegger insists that Descartes did not “subjectivize” knowledge or metaphysics with his cogito . Much more the opposite, since Descartes was guided, Heidegger says, by the prior conviction that mathematics provided both . . . . Continue Reading »
Foucault, from Discipline and Punish : “The more on possesses power or privilege [in the premodern world], the more one is marked as an individual, by rituals, written accounts or visual reproductions. The ‘name’ and the genealogy that situate one within a kinship group, the . . . . Continue Reading »
In a post several years ago ( http://www.leithart.com/archives/002185.php ) I summarized Foucault’s thoughts on the “architecture of control. It didn’t occur to me at the time that there are intriguing similarities between the process that Foucault describes and the organization . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian philosophy George Grant viewed Roe as “poison” to liberalism because of its “unthought ontology.” He elaborates: “In adjudicating for the right of the mother to choose whether another member of her species lives or dies, the judge is required to make an . . . . Continue Reading »
Joyce Kerr Tarpley’s Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is not only an excellent study of Austen’s deepest and most important novel, but also a thorough vindication of the thesis that Austen was no mere spinner of fluffy romances but a thinker of the first . . . . Continue Reading »
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