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Luther Ray Abel writes for National Review Online about a problem plaguing a pillar of higher education. I attend a well-to-do liberal-arts school in the Midwest. The professors are wonderful…
There are two fundamentally different conceptions of civil society. One sees people acting with their families and neighbors to help one another. Civil society is voluntary cooperation with regard to…
You may remember celebrating Thanksgiving by tracing your hand to create the outline of a turkey and hearing the story of the harvest meal celebrated by Pilgrims and American Indians…
It seems as if most media coverage of Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s Mormonism has focused on voters’ potential skepticism of a Mormon candidate. But David Frum‘s latest Newsweek column…
I’ll add my vote to Jon’s, as a parent who is currently raising seven children. How bad does a kid’s behavior have to be to wreck the atmosphere of a…
Jeff Taylor passed me this link in response to my earlier post today. It’s a column by Michael Barone entitled “Cultures Aren’t Equal.” In it Barone writes of multiculturalism and…
I trust this tedious exercise has sucked all the fun out of them by now. Oh well, it was bound to happen.
Hal ? by “tragic view” I was referring to the Calvinist doctrine of the total depravity of man, which is in contrast with the more positivist view of leftist academics…
I’ll be glad to work with you, Jon, but I’m not sure what page of the hymnbook you’re on.? Or which book you’re singing from. Fatalism is more connected with…
Hal, the Calvinism reference was to the “tragic view” portion, not the Hee-Haw lyrics ? which reflect, wouldn’t you say, more of a fatalistic view (cropping up in recent days…
Jon apparently believes that a Calvinist is someone who can fall down the stairs, get up, and say, “Well, I’m glad that’s over.”
These guys took the tragic view of what Hal called the “beauty of averaging.” Note a similarity between the beginnings of their mantra and Cunningham’s “Meditation”: Gloom, despair, and agony…