Paper Clippings The Blog of The Crossroads Cultural Center
Paper Clippings, more than a classical blog, is a service providing valuable reading material in order to help readers reach a judgment about current affairs. Comments and discussion are more than welcome.


Default identity
Some people are having a hard time to be recognized as non-Muslim.


A dilemma
There is a built-in contradiction in the idea of public education in a deeply divided society.

Foundling wheel
A very traditional and Catholic idea.

Children of the state
Apparently there is no freedom of education whatsoever in Germany.

Familiar pattern
It is remarkable how certain phenomena start popping up in similar forms more or less at the same time in the most disparate corners of the world.

They are back
A few months after the gospel of Judas, here comes the tumb of Jesua. The only interesting question is: why would anybody think that this is interesting?

Big problem
Giuliani's Catholic problem. The real problem is that his whole persona embodies the cultural meltdown of east-coast "ethnic" cultural Catholicism. Does faith have any relevance to real life?

Cultural poverty
It seems reasonable that if a society fails to educate the young, the result will be a new kind of
underclass. But the origin of the problem is not globalization; it is a neglect of humanity.