Here’s a nice, thought-provoking piece by a philosopher, Agnes Callard, on what a certain kind of unpopular argument is for. In fact this seems to me a large issue that stands behind the ham-handed...

I'm feeling munificent this morning.  Or procrastinatory.  

Infrastructure week!

This is really interesting to think about. While I still think of housing as the MAIN...

“It is only by engaging with the critical reading and interpretive skills imparted by the study of the humanities that consumers of media can deconstruct methodologies, assess hypotheses and judge...

One of my friends sent me a Q&A about "religious ethics" that she wanted me to answer for a research project she's doing in our field.  I answered them, obviously in inadequate, overly terse and...

I think this is true--there are deeper structures than particular individuals and personalities shaping our current situation.

“The sources of angst vary from country to country, but at root...

When Isabel Sawhill at Brookings confesses that she has become “wobbly” on the neoliberal paradigm, things are getting interesting, at last.

The new spiritual consumerism! Except it’s not really...

Elaine Kamarck, a long-time Democratic party intellectual, has a new little op-ed out from Brookings.  She's arguing for an increased role for what she calls "peer review" in the Democratic...

Read this piece on the simple randomness of who lived and who died.  

 A person born on September 11, 2001 would now be eighteen.  More than a fifth of America--about 65 million people--are...

(Sorry.)

Here's a fascinating story of how the Franco-African Roman Catholic church came to terms with decolonialism, which meant much more than simply rejecting direct rule from France, but was...