We seem to have picked up both our fair share of intelligent, articulate, reasoned commenters and our fair share of trolls here at PoMoCon. I’m interested in getting the takes of all of our readers on the following two passages, both from Frederiek Depoortere’s Christ in Postmodern . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Christmas and New Years have come and gone and I didn’t have my usual two-fingers of Buffalo Trace. I did spend time with the beloved first-wife engaged in theological problems and recounting Christmases past with the house strewn with desecrated wrapping paper and joyous . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the basic distinctions in contemporary thought about thinking is between brain and mind. "Brain" means the organic machine inside our skulls. "Mind" is more elusive: it can refer to anything from the generic subject of any possible judgement to the syndrome of . . . . Continue Reading »
This is my first post as a member of the Postmodern Conservative team. By way of debut, I want to raise an issue we’ve alluded to but haven’t taken on directly. That’s the status of intellectuals, especially academics, in American conservatism. As Ivan points out , many critics . . . . Continue Reading »
Augustinian Christianity is clearly the foundation of what became the medieval and modern liberal traditions—the traditions that separated the person or the individual from all the monistic pretensions of either the (natural) philosopher or the city. As the civic religionist Rousseau . . . . Continue Reading »
If memory serves I was sitting in sociology class, just after lunch, on this day forty-four years ago, when the loud speaker at the front of the class crackled. I leaned forward to the girl sitting in front of me, Patty Brennan, and whispered, "They’ve shot the president!" She . . . . Continue Reading »
As I observed the musicians (including my adorable 14-year-old soprano) and their adoring parents at a recent school concert, my thoughts turned to one of my late father’s favorite movies, “The Music Man.” I was thinking of the concluding scene in which the inept, untutored . . . . Continue Reading »
Leo Strauss’s “elevation” of the philosopher’s “eternity” is intended as a rhetorical counterweight to the dehumanizing power of technology. Christianity, by referring the meaning of morality to an authority beyond humanity, and by implicating man at heart . . . . Continue Reading »
A key source of misunderstanding in my much controverted Manifesto, I think, has to do with the very nature of my undertaking as respects theory and practice. Commenters who blame me for not providing a clear set of actionable principles are still working within a modern (post-Christian) . . . . Continue Reading »
And an open soul. I have just read through the first chapter (on "Glaucon’s Republic") of the amiable Prof. Ranasinghe’s brilliant, challenging, and edifying The Soul of Socrates (Cornell 2000). (Well, it’s not new is it, but it is new to me, and maybe to . . . . Continue Reading »
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