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...

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...