Caritas in Veritate
by James PoulosJohn Schwenkler’s posting chapter-by-chapter commentary at Upturned Earth. . . . . Continue Reading »
Why do they want marriage?
by Will WilsonOne used to see a great deal more of this kind of rhetoric : Instead of applying its impressive muscle to creating an alternative to this hoary, unsecular, historically sexist, and needlessly restrictive institution, the movement instead opted to perpetuate it. If the status quo could be expanded . . . . Continue Reading »
What Marriage Is—And What It Isn’t
by Robert P. GeorgeEveryone agrees that marriage, whatever else it is or does, is a relationship in which persons are united. But what are persons? And how is it possible for two or more of them to unite? The view typically (if often unconsciously) held by advocates of liberal positions on issues of sexuality and . . . . Continue Reading »
Randomness and Pantheism
by James PoulosPatrick Appel has a long, introspective roundup of reader reax to some posts on atheism at the Dish. He closes with a personal take, acknowledging there is a connection between pantheism, agnosticism and atheism. [ . . . ] Most of the tension between the terms does revolve around “God” . . . . Continue Reading »
The State of Faith on Campus
by James PoulosFirst Things is taking a poll — a “journey through the wild world of college rankings.” Quantify — and qualify! — your experiences here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Balzac, of all things
by Ralph HancockHere are a couple of excerpts from a brilliant decoding of Balzac’s esotericism, accomplished by Scott Sprenger, a colleague of mine at BYU. Consider the applications to the analysis of Straussianism, and to a post-Straussian postmodern critique of modernity: The fundamental problem that . . . . Continue Reading »
From Unions to Arrangements
by James PoulosThe most important theme, I’d say, in the below. . . . . Continue Reading »
A Secular Political Philosophy
by Ralph HancockCharles Taylor’s monumental (or at least huge) A Secular Age is, I suppose, old news already, but, as usual, it has taken me a long time to figure out how to undo Taylor with his own statements, and so now of course I have to share. Finally I’ve figured out this out, and I thought you . . . . Continue Reading »
Jewish Survival in a Gentile World
by David P. GoldmanThere are only two possible strategies for Jewish survival in a gentile world. One is to be tolerated. The other is to be indispensable. The first strategy hopes that if every minority is tolerated, then perhaps even the Jews, the minority with the longest history of persecution, might also be . . . . Continue Reading »
Abortion: Hamlet, Machiavelli, Obama
by James PoulosDo read Alan Jacobs on Obama at Notre Dame. Because the clump-of-cells argument is so crude and ‘final’, Obama, putting himself at the front of a long train, seeks refuge in bad postmodernity. Rather than overdetermining the abortion question as a question of science — and this, . . . . Continue Reading »
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