Down to my own size

The totalitarian potential of "liberalism".

Feeling the Spirit

The art of Robert Duvall.

Muddled

A clear criticism of the new financial reform law.

Teach, don't reform

Diane Ravitch on the status of public education in the US.

Faces

The oldest known pictures of Peter and Paul.

Logical insanity

One would like to think that Peter Singer is either crazy or evil. The truth is that he just develops logically the presuppositions of a culture where humanity is not recognized and has no special value. The end results, of course, are bound to be both crazy AND evil.

Spiritual friendship

The mysterious power of grace.

Make up your own

Ross Douthat points out the absurdity of the quest for the historical Jesus.

Moving backwards

John Allen writes from Ukraine.

Original identity

An interview with Dana Gioia.

Myths

An interview with Rodney Stark

Smart idiots

Intelligence (at least in the narrow sense in which our culture understands it) is very overrated.

A matter of love

A reasonably good story on a group of seminarians in the Washington Post.

Life is a market

Mary Ann Glendon attended the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The point here is that contemporary capitalism has fully converged with classical Marxism in reducing people to purely economic (actually, worse: purely financial) agents.

Unsurpassed

Fukuyama on a new biography of Nietzsche.