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 October 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011

Wednesday
Oct262011

Totalitarianism

Archbishop Gomez on freedom of religion.
Wednesday
Oct262011

Children of the Enlightenment

Civilization is not natural, it is mostly a matter of education.
Thursday
Oct202011

Pure negativism

Maggie Gallagher makes a good point: contemporary culture seems frozen in time, for the simple reason that it built on the ideal of escaping from an imaginary past, and so it is intrinsically unable to generate any new ideals that could propel it into the future.
Thursday
Oct202011

The chancellor knows better

Defending parental rights in NYC.
Thursday
Oct132011

Culture matters

Roger Scruton attack the "Marxian option:" that ultimately everything is shaped by economic factors.
Monday
Oct102011

From Saint Simon to Pinker 

One of the great religious myth of positivism is that science will lead to universal peace.
Saturday
Oct082011

Killing machine

Alvaro Vargas Llosa wonders how anybody could like Che Guevara. The short anwer is that Marxism, by failing as a political system, has left a gaping void as a religion (i.e. faith in the revolution, in the advent of a new earthly paradise).
Saturday
Oct012011

Reality does play a role

Peggy Noonan makes a good comment:
The interview reflects the weird inability of so many in political leadership now to acknowledge the role in life of . . . reality.
However, she fails to recognize that politicians only reflect the culture. Anybody educated at Columbia and Harvard has been taught in countless ways that "we make up our own narrative" is the true definition of freedom. It's just Nietzscheanism for sensitive souls.