Given what she just wrote , I’m hoping Helen can hit this one out of the park. Over at LadyBlog, Bonnie Lindblom quotes a professor at Northwestern University saying the following: "Conservatives worry about societal collapse, liberals worry about a world without deep feelings and . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Perspectives on Political Science , I organized a symposium on Peter Lawler’s most recent book (since last I checked) Homeless and at Home in America . Besides the brief introduction and an article that I contributed, there are also brilliant pieces by . . . . Continue Reading »
Helen is fond of telling me that I "haven’t gone far enough." Turnabout is fair play. The trouble with rights language isn’t that it clings, fluke-like, to an existing moral framework . If rights were simply an inefficient middle-man, I wouldn’t mind keeping them around. . . . . Continue Reading »
Time for a moment of self-promotion (not entirely shameless—-I’m mildly embarrassed). For those of you who haven’t yet read my short piece on the marriage of reductionist neuroscience and post-modern poetry here at Culture11 , there is also a much longer piece at The . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, not exactly, but if pretending to be part of a group is really the only way to express solidarity with anyone anymore, I guess I’ll roll with it. For those incurious souls who didn’t find it necessary to follow the CNN headline Blind Masseurs Jump from Bridge , the facts are . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Reason has somehow become tyrannical; this tyranny manifest itself in broad daylight in ideocratic totalitarianism, but it also threatens liberal democracy. 2. Human beings are subject to an elusive compound of reason and power. The rule of reason is as fragile and tainted as it is . . . . Continue Reading »
The legendary Dr. Pat Deneen’s contribution to Culture11 today is about how the honorable McCain should encourage ordinary Americans to take personal responsibility for the financial crisis. They should start living more frugally, with genuine self-restraint, and more ecologically in . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter probably has the right idea—it’s worth some effort kicking off the new blog by trying to hash out what postmodern conservatism means. I’ve been re-reading a lot of Christopher Lasch lately, especially the work following The Cutlure of Narcissism (1979) . Lasch argued for a . . . . Continue Reading »
Genuine diversity depends, of course, on lives formed by different understandings of the self or soul. Our tradition of diversity has been largely of diverse religious communities. Now we talk so much about diversity because we’re anxiously aware that we’re losing it. Diversity has . . . . Continue Reading »
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