Apr 29 2008
A couple weeks ago I was spending an afternoon sitting out on the porch of my residence at my fellowship, sipping some Courvosier, smoking my pipe, when I saw two disheveled youth walking along our fence. As they passed a gap in the hedge, one of them threw an empty cigarette pack into our yard. [...]
Apr 27 2008
That, in my opinion, is what the entertainment industry has become in the 21st century. I don’t watch very much TV, barely any at all really. So when I do, it shocks me how banal and shallow, how bourgeois it is. And I’m not talking about the violence or sexual content. I’m talking about the [...]
Apr 25 2008
DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:”37781″,categoryID:”5″,rootCategory:”83″,domain:”kutv.dayport.com”,playerInstanceID:”6079F2D7-64DE-7731-AEBE-0BBA248311D6″}); Now compare that with Ambrose of Milan’s 4th century writing from Book 2 of The Duties of the Clergy: The greed of beggars today is quite without precedent. They come in the pink of health, for no reason but their vagrancy. They are perfectly prepared to drain the resources and dry up the support [...]
Apr 24 2008
T.S. Eliot, Thoughts After Lambeth, 1931: The Universal Church is today, it seems to me, more definitely set against the World than at any time since Pagan Rome. I do not mean that our times are particularly corrupt; all times are corrupt. In spite of certain local appearances, Christianity is not and cannot be within measurable [...]
Apr 22 2008
One can have “reform†without liberalism. Above all, Russia today is still far from the rule of law—much more important than “democracy.†The problem with the modern Western world is that it got all jazzed up on rationality and forgot what that rationality was supposed to be in the service of. The pope wants to [...]
Apr 21 2008
During my fellowship, the academic portion of which I will complete this week, I’ve found a recurring theme in my studies. That is postmodernism. Our coursework might be summed up in two words: political theology. Readings begin with the topic of covenantal theology, wade through the politics of the patristics, explore enlightenment political theory, examine [...]
Apr 18 2008
I think it’s pretty widely agreed that Hillary Clinton is doing her party a major disservice by remaining in the race. Instead of gracefully bowing out when it became clear she had not chance, and thus giving Obama – and thereby her party – an early and unbruised entrance to the general election, she has [...]
Apr 09 2008
A very timely article from the New York Times. It’s not all about the money, though: “If I were to start again as an undergraduate, I would major in philosophy,†said Matthew Goldstein, the CUNY chancellor, who majored in mathematics and statistics. “I think that subject is really at the core of just about everything [...]
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