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.

Wednesday
Apr022014

Destroying all identities

Christopher Caldwell on the situation in France.
Tuesday
Mar182014

Conjuring reality away

Roger Scruton on scientism and culture.
Tuesday
Mar182014

The new Puritans

There is a deep continuity between mainstream American Protestantism and American secularism.
Monday
Mar102014

Faith's true purpose

Terry Eagleton on post-modernism and unbelief.
Thursday
Feb272014

Causal Density

Do not trust those who claim to base public policy on social science.
Thursday
Feb202014

Stuff

Michael Hanby on same-sex marriage.
Tuesday
Feb182014

A society designed for the strong

Patrick J. Deenen on Burke vs. Stuart Mill in contemporary US culture.
Thursday
Feb132014

Responsibility

Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner push back against libertarianism.
Thursday
Jan302014

Mystification

A brilliant analysis by Ross Douthat.
Tuesday
Jan282014

China of the north?

Scandinavia plays a major role in contemporary Westerm mythology.
Tuesday
Jan212014

In-humanities

Heather McDonald about the value of knowing the past.
Tuesday
Jan072014

What's wrong with the Pyrenees?

And now, something for our friends who are looking to buy a house in New York City.
Sunday
Dec292013

Not surprising

A side effect of the crisis of Arab nationalism and the rise of political Islam is that many Arab Christian may become more sympathetic to Israel.
Thursday
Dec192013

Away from the body!

The "Oprah" religiosity Richard Rodriguez has noticed is really a form of gnosticism.
Sunday
Dec082013

Getting there?

Brendan O'Neill checks our progress towards the "Brave New World."