Free will

Contrary to a common pseudo-scientific prejudice, and unlike animal, humans are not primarily driven by instinct. For instance, under the certain conditions they may choose not to reproduce.

Keep your relationships to yourself

A well-reasoned editorial on marriage.

At the heart of experience

A nice talk by NIH researcher (and Crossroads Advisory Board member) Maria Teresa Landi

Neurotrash

A piece by Roger Scruton.

The inevitability of death

Going around Oxford in 1968 with J.R.R. Tolkien.

What is paganism?

This Spengler essay is thought-provoking, especially regarding the relationship between rationality and covenant.

Eternal adolescence

It seems many young people have trouble becoming adults. It is telling that the article obsesses about the irrelevant question whether we need a new psicological classification, but shows no interest in the possible cultural causes of this phenomenon.

People matter

Economics is largely shaped by demographics.

An event

Eamon Duffy on the Pope's thinking about the Liturgy.

Forever lost?

Afetr many years, a mass on the Black Mountain.

Not thinking

Why all the talk about artificial intelligence is not intelligent.

Denial of self

David Hart reviews what sounds like an excellent and badly needed book.

Lack of context

It is hard to be a doctor in a culture that cannot handle death.

Moralism

Ideology can dream of perfect systems but cannot generate better people.

Witnesses

A book that may mark a long-overdue turning point.