Corrosive Ideology

Phil Lawler supports Wieseltier's attack against scientism.

Ignorant ignorantia

Leon Wieseltier on the decline of the humanities.

The center of the universe?

The Lord likes to play with cosmologists.

Words

David Brooks of the history of the last century through words.

Intended consequences

These remarks by John Milbank are special case of a general phenomenon: all attempts at "liberating" the individual on the basis of a flawed liberal anthropology end up instead expanding the power of the state.

The myth of the inviolable self

An interesting essay by Alan Jacobs.

Fundamental aspirations

Fr. Robert Barron writes on the Pope and the Religious sense.

Out of control

Over the last few decades it turned out that producing abundance is easier than educating ourselves not to abuse it.

The benefits of faith?

Whereas obviously joining a religious community may well have beneficial side-effects, reducing Christianity to a placebo is really a terrible insult. Human beings need more than psychological support.

For Man

Fr. James Schall on Card. Bergoglio's essay on Mons.Giussani.

Forget about saving

Carmen Reinhart explains the wonderful world of negative real interest rates.

Back to the future

How else could anybody find renewal except by rediscovering a tradition?

Reality is a sign

A touching witness.

Grief is not a condition

A witness on the attempt to fix all human problems with drugs.

Banning astonishment

This story on philosopher Thomas Nagel makes a good point: extreme philosophical reductionism is usually a reflection of hatred of religious transcendence, not of any form of rational knowledge.