Evolving?

Olivier Roy on the situation in the Middle East.

A reflection

Michael Gerson (an evangelical Protestant) wades into Catholic social doctrine. At the end of the day, generating an original Catholic cultural judgment takes a lot of work and historically has not been one of the chief priorities of American Catholicism.

Concerned

Rich Lowry on the fact that democracy may not help Egyptian Christians at all.

A wayfarer

A new documentary on Walker Percy

A charism

Remembering Jerome Lejeune

Abandoned

The sad predicament of the Arab youth.

Death of a tradition

The decline of the humanities in US higher education after the 1980's is another example of the well-known "Del Noce's law": Marxist ideology leads by logical necessity to the triumph of bourgeois materialism.

Going through the hoops

Speaking of scientism, it has also the effect of hollowing out the educational system, by producing outstanding technicians who were never taught to ask questions about meaning and purpose.

Nihil cognoveris nisi per amicitiam

There is a word for what David Brooks is trying to describe: common sense. The paradox is that he needs to invoke tons of "scientific studies" to legitimate a list of propositions that somebody like St. Augustine knew perfectly well, but that modern scientism has negated on purely ideological grounds. In fact, this very article shows that he still cannot break free from a scientistic mentality.

Pluralist

John Allen sits down with Prof. Joseph Weiler.

End of an era

George Weigel's reconstruction of recent US Catholic history reflects his own ideological inclinations, but is informative.

Buro-revolutionaries

While Vladimir Bukovsky could use a less conspiratorial language, he makes two perceptive observations: a) that one of the big ideas of the European left in the 1980's was to achieve a "convergence" between Western Europe and the USSR, and b) that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the same people adopted the EU as the vehicle of their revolutionary ideology.

About time

A new book on science in the Middle Ages.

Self-expansion

"Marriage" in the Brave New World. If you take the right kind of drugs your personality will "grow" even larger.

Permanent things

An interview on T.S. Eliot with Thomas Howard.