A BIG THINKING EXPERIMENT BY ME. So I’m working with Marc Guerra on Descartes, Locke, and Darwin and the modern science of virtue, and the result will be many annoying thought experiments such as this one. . . . . Continue Reading »
An Update on the Anglican Ordinariates Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia In the Beginning Was “Power”? Anne Barbeau Gardinier, New Oxford Review Inside Turkey’s Secretive ‘Gulen’ Movement Justin Vela, The Atlantic Summarizing Obama’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Belgrade, World War II: My favorite paper was Pravda [not the famous one —HR], owned by the seven brothers Sokitch. One brother I never met, as he lived in the country. The other six were all over six feet tall, very broad and most of them well furnished with gold teeth. Each brother was . . . . Continue Reading »
If you don’t know the story of the record, the new one, it looks like a Christian record; it looks like I’m getting baptized. But I do like it because it’s related to the video for ” Karibu Ya Bintou .” The whole idea is related to the fact that my name, . . . . Continue Reading »
There can be no doubt that many people read the Bible incorrectly and unwisely, missing such literary elements as figures of speech, including metaphors, similes, &c. Reading a metaphorical passage too literally is certainly one way of misreading scripture. Nevertheless, assuming the following . . . . Continue Reading »
The Obama slideshow on the life of Julia gives a sense of how social democracy can combine with a kind of atomized individualism. The real Julia would face a less generous government of course (Julia would be less influential member of the coalition until she got to be a quite old Julia), but one . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an email I got on Jim’s path-breaking article. I’ve added, very quickly, a couple of my own comments: It seems the one main lacuna in his argument is that he has no conception of heresy. So, for example, the intrusion of Hegelian ideas in the Social Gospel imperialists is . . . . Continue Reading »
Kenneth B. MacIntyre launches what can only be called an, er, exoteric assault over at The American Conservative , one which may portend an internecine debate: he blasts Leo Strauss and his followers as ideological “false prophets.” Taking Paul Gottfried’s recent biography . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Samuel Goldman is now writing at The American Conservative’s State of the Union blog. Asking whether or not there can be a “decent” American Right for the 21st century—one which is suitable to this democratic age—he provides a link to Postmodern Conservative. . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian author and speaker Dawn Eden recently interviewed on Fox News about her new book My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints . The book explores the effectiveness of grace and prayer to heal deep emotional wounds caused by sexual abuse, reminding that “the . . . . Continue Reading »
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