“Unless you love the music of words you are merely a pamphleteer.”  Mary Szybist on Charles Wright, as a teacher and a poet.

Interesting piece on young people in the Reformation.  "The...

Back in October, Udi Greenberg reviewed Carlo Invernizzi Accetti's What Is Christian Democracy?  It's a good but not uncritical review, and I recommend it to you. 

Invernizzi Accetti seems to be...

I love paleoanthropology.  I don't know why; maybe it goes back to some early watching of 2001: A Space Odyssey or something.  But the idea that we have ancestors who were very different from us...

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Really good review by Randall Stephens of the kind of bad book about providence that, in the hands of a skilled reader, can provoke some deep theological questions:

"It...

I just read this article, which tells the story of a private equity firm--"Ethos"--which wants to buy the outfit that manages ".org" addresses on the interwebs.

One doesn't have to be paranoid...

Busy times, but I'm here with the crucial information for you.  Or at least the interesting information.

Carol Graham offering an overview of the literature on “deaths of despair” among...

Because it's Wednesday, and you need new ideas!

A really thought-provoking piece on concentration, distinguishing it from attention:

We ask too much of attention and not enough of...

This is interesting--I didn't read this when it came out this past May, but it seems worth considering.  Am I guilty of this "left Straussianism"?  I wonder if sometimes I am. What do you think?   ...

This is a good piece by Ryan Crocker, a long-time State Department hand and expert on the Middle East.  He's a serious guy, who represented the United States for both Republican and Democratic...

This is a disappointing list.  Or the idea behind it is disappointing, anyway I don’t know why we need a list of the meanest views of the year. Perhaps that is one sort of list, composed of the sort...