Paper Clippings The Blog of The Crossroads Cultural Center

Paper Clippings, more than a classical blog, is a service providing valuable reading material in order to help readers reach a judgment about current affairs. Comments and discussion are more than welcome.

Entries from August 1, 2010 - August 31, 2010

Monday
Aug232010

What is paganism?

This Spengler essay is thought-provoking, especially regarding the relationship between rationality and covenant.
Saturday
Aug212010

Eternal adolescence

It seems many young people have trouble becoming adults. It is telling that the article obsesses about the irrelevant question whether we need a new psicological classification, but shows no interest in the possible cultural causes of this phenomenon.
Wednesday
Aug182010

People matter

Economics is largely shaped by demographics.
Tuesday
Aug172010

An event

Eamon Duffy on the Pope's thinking about the Liturgy.
Friday
Aug132010

Forever lost?

Afetr many years, a mass on the Black Mountain.
Monday
Aug092010

Not thinking

Why all the talk about artificial intelligence is not intelligent.
Wednesday
Aug042010

Denial of self

David Hart reviews what sounds like an excellent and badly needed book.
Sunday
Aug012010

Lack of context

It is hard to be a doctor in a culture that cannot handle death.
Sunday
Aug012010

Moralism

Ideology can dream of perfect systems but cannot generate better people.
Sunday
Aug012010

Witnesses

A book that may mark a long-overdue turning point.