Shallow

Over 20 years ago the late Irving Kristol noticed that New York was no longer the place where "large ideas" are discussed, and thought that this was due to the rise of the universities. In hindsight, what seems to have happened is that a scientistic, pragmatist culture just seems not to care very much about large ideas.

Spanish goth

There must be some deep meaning hidden behind the fashion preferences of Zapatero's daughters .

Doable

Archbishop Pezzi is strikingly hopeful about unity between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches. Read also this.

The ideology of no ideology

That is, the joy of belonging to the herd and a complete lack of seriousness.

Good question

"I stopped asking 'What am I going to do?' and started asking 'Who am I going to be?'

Economic nihilism

Analyses like like this one often miss the cultural side of the problem: the development of a large financial and political elite for whom profit is completely unrelated to work, production and, more generally, human economic construction.

Against the tide

Leon Kass on the collapse of education in the humanities.

A perfect death?

Ross Douthat on end-of-life issues.