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Note to pompous, Kant-bashing public intellectuals : Before quoting from a book you haven’t read, you might want to check Wikipedia to make sure the tome even exists. Bernard-Henri Levy, France’s loudest voice of the 1970s school of nouveaux philosophes , who rarely appears on TV with . . . . Continue Reading »

What comes to mind when you hear the word “professor?” A bookish scholar? A instructor from your college days? The smart dude from Gilligan’s Island ? The real answer is “none-of-the-above.” I don’t who you’re trying to kid, you implicit racist, but we all . . . . Continue Reading »

Every day on their web journal First Principles , the Intercollegiate Studies Institute posts an entry from their indispensable American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. Today’s feature is Russell Hittinger on ” Natural Law “: At least in the English-speaking world, modern . . . . Continue Reading »

The Song of Songs has a central role in Jewish and Christian self-understanding with respect to God’s relationship to his people. However, the degree to which Christian and Jewish accounts of the Song of Songs coincide and diverge in light of the heightened attention given to this work in the . . . . Continue Reading »

In debates over the existence of God and man, the existence of vampires rarely enters the discussion. Whether Count Dracula and his kin exist hardly seems to be a relevant concern. But a fascinating paper by a pair of physicists makes me wonder if the existence—or rather the . . . . Continue Reading »

In this painfully adorable video, actor Brian Cox attempts to teach Theo (age 2 1/2) the soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet . (Via: Boing Boing ) . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things senior editor David Goldman will be on CNBC’s Larry Kudlow show tonight around 7 p.m. EST. . . . . Continue Reading »

After examining the data on 210 million public profiles on Facebook, Pete Warden discovered some fascinating clusters of connections . His visualization of the information, which tracks connections between places that share friends, reveals that groups form strong online bonds locally but have few . . . . Continue Reading »

Do introverts fit in at church? That’s the intriguing question Richard Beck, an associate professor and experimental psychologist at Abilene Christian University, asks in an important post on introverts and the Imago Dei : The answer, obviously, is that it depends upon what kind of church we . . . . Continue Reading »

Andrew Klavan, a contributing editor at City Journal , examines the differences between culture and reality in America : Culture in America is an enchanted place where the conservative facts of life are magically transformed into liberal fantasies. In movies, TV shows, novels, even comedy routines, . . . . Continue Reading »