A Profanity-Laden Sermon for White People Who Want to Talk About Race
Encountering the grief of racism in a non-David-Brooks-ian way.
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Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve For Criticizing Capitalism
I had to read Brooks’ column on Laudato si a couple of times to realize fully what…
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David Brooks’ Rant on Emptiness of Secularism is Poppycock
New York Times columnist David Brooks is way behind the curve when it comes to post-theistic…
Read MoreEgypt and the Problem of Religion
Which side in Egypt is currently on the side of the angels and which not? One likes to assume that in any, particularly political, conflict the good guys can be easily separated from the bad guys; ordinarily the former is assumed to play by the rules of the game…
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My God, David Brooks
One senses that in Brooks’ reading of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age the principle of choice becomes its own form of transcendence.
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The Humanities Make Life Bearable
Walt Whitman counseled each of us to “dismiss whatever insults your soul.” My fervent hope is that the new Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences report—a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that was “commissioned” or “requested” by a quartet of DC pols—will be dismissed accordingly.
Read MoreEverything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools
Wasn’t it?
Read MoreRomney Behind Closed Doors
Where is the love?
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Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again
What I started out writing, churlishly and petulantly, is that I could only surmise that the market for books like this consists mainly of somewhat innocent readers; of people who whose only previous conception of Christ’s atoning work is of the standard, unreconstructed, washed-in-the-blood variety. For them, discovering what Jones is writing about would come as manna in the wilderness, and in that regard Jones has performed a mitzvah by publishing this book.
Case Against Church-State Separation From Unlikely Source
A new essay in an influential journal illuminates little-known intersections between Catholic thought and US social history. But then it goes on to prescribe an odd fix for US labor woes: razing the wall between church and state.
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