Some Other Friends Weigh In on Health Care
(This post is inspired by David Brooks’s column yesterday, Bentham v. Hume. I have some other friends who may add…
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The field of economics is a wonderful tool for understanding a limited body of knowledge. In our imperfect world, I…
Intentional Community and the yuppie in me
Harmony Hazard, 24, wanted “A safe place for book groups and hula hoops”; Sara Teitelbaum, 23, wanted “People to bring…
A Provisional Human Construct: Truth and Beauty in the Thought of C. S. Lewis
In my previous post, I hinted that there was significance to the way in which we design our art and…
The Nuclear Option
The President has effected a significant move toward “nuclear disarmament” (we all know the actual meaning is a more vague…
National Education Standards are not even Technocratic
The New York Times has a roundtable on the traction that the Common Core Standards Initiative is working on: The…
Initial and Additional Thoughts on Suffering and Faith
I give in. A blog just isn’t a blog without commenting on that bloggiest of blogs … The Daily Dish….
The Enemy, He Is Us
A painful anecdote: I recently re-watched the 2006 German film “The Lives of Others,” and I was moved yet again…
The Greenest Pope in History
Is Benedict XVI a “green pope”? Some Catholics think so. Maybe even the greenest pope. The Acton Institute disagrees: The problem,…
Paradox Watch: Can you love Alice Waters and Capitalism?
I read two articles this morning. The first was from Charles Krauthammer on whether President Obama may have finessed policy…
A poet and he didn’t know it
Terry Eagleton is “certainly not urging [people] to go to church.” But he accidentally makes a good point. His interview with The Immanent…
Old People, National Politics, and Protest: or, Uncertainty as an effective strategy
NY Times: American politics has been defined by gender gaps, racial gaps, geographic gaps and the gap between the religious…
Political Philosophy and Science
Political theory, when it is interesting, deals with issues of human nature and how to organize it. A conservative will…
Political Religion and War
A few days ago, Andrew McCarthy wrote a commendably lengthy piece on democracy-building. A highlight: “Democracy hawks are another matter….
What is the Middle Class?
Never pejorative, always claimed, the salvation of society, the vigor of industry, the bearers of true religion, common sense, able,…
Mouth-Breathing Morons, Slurpee-Sucking Geeks, and Beer-Drinking Dufuses
In That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis warned that if man tried to conquer nature, he would only succeed in…
Modernist Watch: Money and Happiness
Catchy headlines sell newspapers. Given that industry’s trouble state, we shouldn’t be surprised to see an uptick in the “desperation-for-relevance”…
The Great Fire – in requiem
September 2 is the anniversary of the Great Fire of London, 1666. One of the most tragic and iconic single…
Ted Kennedy and Mixed Government
I didn’t plan on writing anything today, but sometimes one just finds something worth sharing – especially when one reads…
Re: English Liberty and American Liberty (Part II)
Various traditions in subsequent American political history have rejected Tocqueville’s distinction. The Confederate states rejected it, arguing for an ideological…