"History serves as only the blindest and most stumbling guide to the future. America is not Rome. Donald Trump is not Commodus. There is nothing written into the DNA of a superpower that says that...

This essay is fine, mostly; but basically it is a long note for Moser to take home from the teacher, telling his parents how disappointed the teacher is in his biography.  That, from what she says...

I don't know who put it there.

A list, from 2017, of "Latin American Female Theologians you should know about."  If you're interested in theology, this is a way of helping expand (I...

This is a good cautionary tale for where we are today, and what a lot of "idea labs" and "thought leaders" amount to: moral vacuity, which means more here than simply lacking any ethical standards. ...

“One of the most striking things to me reading her journals was the impression that, from youth to old age, my mother was fighting the same battles, both with the world and with herself.” Thus David...

They pile up, I'm telling you.  So let's make this a two posts-for-Tuesday day.

Two points about this piece: First, I had no idea that Theodor Adorno had an essay on "Free Time" (and now I...

I just read this piece on Stanford University, which is obviously a hyperbolic piece, but gets at something that I think is important about a lot of the discussion around college these days.  Basica...

An interesting idea is voiced in this piece by Michael Gerson, though I do not think he fully names it.  

Because I think I know better (forgive me), I will name it; I will call it "aspirational...

I collect them and then I try to get them off my hands as quickly as I can, but they pile up.

Robot priests!  This piece makes me think of this, in several different ways: The humans are...

Brookings on foreign aid.  The idea that foreign aid--which is literally less than one percent of the US's budget--is a vast expense, full of fraud and waste, is ludicrous. We could probably...