Do you know any outstanding students or recent grads who might be interested in participating in the Witherspoon Institute’s first summer seminar on Natural Law and Public Affairs? If so, I would be grateful if you would share this announcement with them. I will be teaching the seminar . . . . Continue Reading »
In a CNN Opinion Column, Sally Kohn has called the Little Sister of the Poor’s suit against the HHS Mandate “far-fetched” because they refuse to sign a form stating their religious exemption. She claims:Here’s the thing: No one is saying that the Little Sisters of the Poor . . . . Continue Reading »
This February Princeton is hosting the fourth annual Florovsky Symposium, “Creation and Creaturehood: The Doctrine of Creation in the Patristic Tradition.” The purpose of this year’s symposium is to re-consider the various theological questions raised by the doctrine of creation ex . . . . Continue Reading »
Innocence That GrowsJohn Milbank, ABC Religion & EthicsCheckpoints in ChiapasBr. Dominic Mary Verner, O.P., DominicanaBecause Empathy?John McWhorter, New RepublicGeniuses, Dunces, and HacksMatt Siedel, The MillionsJane Austen to Cassandra Austen: January 9, 1796American . . . . Continue Reading »
There are so many reasons why not getting a Ph.D. in English is great advice. My impression, though, is that “the market” in English (literature etc.) isn’t as bad as it is philosophy. C.J. points to the reason: There are fewer and fewer required courses the . . . . Continue Reading »
So says Matt Blakenship over at Ricochet, prompted in part by the removal of a Milton, Shakespeare, and Chaucer requirement at UCLA by idiotically ideologue English faculty raving on about “Empire” and such.My rule of thumb for many years has been: a desire for undergraduate major in . . . . Continue Reading »
In the last Songbook post, I talked about how “Let’s Get Together” was used by Jefferson Airplane to champion the practice of fraternal love. Such smile on your brother love became a claimed hallmark of the hippie way.As important was the way the song could connect fraternal love . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Postmodern Conservative, Peter Lawler puts together a syllabus, while Pete Spiliakos continues to watch the destruction of the polar ice caps.Peter Leithart, who is still reading Isaiah, is also reading about alchemy and the structure of the Bible.Here at First Thoughts, Phillip Cary’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Every summer the Witherspoon Institute offers a seminar on the Moral Foundations of the Law, open to rising 2L and 3L students in law school, as well as those in LLM and JSD programs (and we’ve been known to have students in the seminar studying jurisprudence in other disciplines, like . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s my weekly breakdown of readings for CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT, which begins next week. Thanks to Flagg Taylor for giving me a one-book resource (THE GREAT LIE—what a perfect collection!) on ideology and totalitarianism, which, in fact, I have never taught . . . . Continue Reading »
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