Blog Roundup: The Ambiguous Adrienne von Speyr

At Postmodern Conservative , James Ceasar writes about the “utter indifference” displayed toward people losing their health insurance.

Peter Leithart is reading Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge , opening his posts on the book with why we don’t understand the Copernican revolution. He’s also reading James Mumford’s Ethics at the Beginning of Life , and Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age .

Maureen Mullarkey takes down Adrienne von Speyr for “a bitchy remark .”

Dr. Boli considers EMPHASIS and virtue .

Here at First Thoughts , we have posts on raising children , machine politics , and the ACA . Gerald McDermott also adds some commentary on Dale Coulter’s piece from yesterday .

And On the Square today, L. M. Miles introduces us to Adrienne von Speyr (with a somewhat different take from that above), and Joshua Schulz writes on the New Mexico Supreme Court and wedding photographers .

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