Second-class

We often read about the persecutions of Coptic Christians. This story is also remarkable.

Pseudo-science

Roger Scruton on the idiocy of applying evolutionary biology where it does not belong.

King Kong vs. Godzilla

An interesting clash between the two great ideologies of our time: scientism (the prejudice that empirical science is the only valid method of knowledge) vs. post-modern relativism (the prejudice that there is no truth, only politics). Scientism is going to win.

Who educates?

Ross Douthat reviews some new statistics. One possible interpretation is that the "educated" elites had wrecked the educational system (in the broadest sense, not just schooling) for everybody else.

Distributivism

An interview with Phillip Blond.

Floored

The Guardian likes Of God and men.

Good news for me

Being a Christian in Afghanistan seems beyond human strength.

Don Camillo with the Pope

An excerpt from the new book-interview with Benedict XVI.

Impermeable to doubt

The interesting thing about this column is that after Brooks raises a question of knowledge ("do we know what we are doing?"), about 500 commenters take for granted that we do know and that the real question is political ("we are on the right side!").

Speak up

A letter from Cardinal George to President Obama.

Mind-wandering

We did not need "science" to know that

our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable degree, by the non-present

Blasphemy

Justice in Pakistan.

Cultural parasitism

Tony Judt's posthumous essay on New York shows a true son of the Enlightment: a man who delights in the variety of human cultures because he wants to belong to none.

Too much ideology

Were the midterm elections a defeat for U.S. Catholics?

What comes first?

George Jackson Mivart was an interesting character. A good quote: a society that saw

no distinction of kind between God and nature, the natural and supernatural, man and brute (must assert) the absolute right of the state to control all and everything in the life of every individual citizen...