In 2022, the first English translation of the "London Writings" by J. G. Hamann was published by Ballast Press, translated by John Kleinig and edited by yours truly. The rights were sold to Lexham Press, which has just released a new edition. (A free post) Read more
Our schools' test scores are lower than ever. The problem isn't just cell-phones or AI. The decline seems to be associated with the laptop computer. So says neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath, who shows, "The more schools digitize, the worse students perform."
Free money for investment accounts for babies and children. Quebec's new secularism law. And the Minnesota Somalis' billion-dollar fraud schemes.
When we think of our advanced information technology, we immediately marvel at how advanced our science and engineering have become and how far we have progressed. But Marshall McLuhan argued that it really makes us more primitive. Some say this is a good thing.
Many conservatives are now promoting the notion of "Heritage Americans," descendants of Americans who have been here since colonial days so are somehow more genuinely American than the descendants of later immigrants. Discuss.
What do you think are the prospects for war? Not a limited "police action" in which the U.S. gets bogged down in a conflict with a lesser power, but a world war scale conflagration in which the U.S. is fighting for its very existence? Many European and Asian nations think one is coming.
According to today's cosmologists, one can say that the universe has no center, so that existence has no meaning; or, with equal validity, that every point is equally the center, so that existence is charged with meaning! What Dante and C. S. Lewis do with this paradox.
Some of you are probably still eating Thanksgiving leftovers (my favorite part of the Thanksgiving feast), so hopefully you won't mind some leftover reflections on the holiday, since gratitude is appropriate year round.
Tackling global warming by blocking out the sun. UK conservatives flocking to church, appalling the liberal state church. And India is outlawing conversion & jailing missionaries.
Advent is a season built around waiting. Today our culture demands immediacy and instant gratification. But human beings need to learn how to wait. This requires cultivating the virtue of patience. The liturgical year can help with that, as Advent teaches us to wait for the coming of Christ.
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