Stephen Marche has written an interesting piece in the May Atlantic on how facebook is making… us lonely. There is a good deal to comment on here, and I’m not particularly inclined to take yet another shot at Facebook, for while
Jeffrey Polet
The Academy of Philosophy and Letters will be holding its annual meeting in Baltimore from June 15-17. The theme this year is “Globalization and the Fragmenting of America: The Problem of Disconnectedness” – an important theme that will resonate with…
Nowhere is this more true than in the Catholic Church, as argued in today’s WSJ by Anne Hendershott and Christopher White. Renewal requires holiness, not accommodation.…
It just makes me laugh:
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NOTE: MY APOLOGIES. Somehow or other the wrong link showed up on that. Thank you anymouse for correcting me. I deeply apologize to anyone who viewed the other video.…
Rabbi Herzfeld of the National Synagogue has petitioned the House Ethics Committee to discipline a House staffer who appears to be recalcitrant as to one of the finer points of Jewish law. The full text of the letter can be…
Holland MI. …As if my beloved state of Michigan hasn’t had enough problems, we now have Republican presidential candidates skittering across our fair soil and bucolic shorelines, plugging up our phone lines with their computer-generated attacks, and ginning up shallow
David Brooks weighs in on the latest data regarding marriage. The poor man. I know of no one who is more tied in knots over contemporary notions of autonomy than is Brooks.…
Along with the recent debate over contraceptive coverage, it is clear that not only has sex permeated our politics and cultural life (Kristof couldn’t be more disingenuous), but it has also become completely dissociated from conceptions of human flourishing, relegated…
The indispensable Tony Esolen, invoking the themes of place, limits, and liberty with great eloquence.
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Jesus without religion is like thinking without tradition.
The Atlantic offers characteristics of conservatives. How does the Porch fit in?
Holland, MI…
The recent dispute between Joe Carter over at First Things and various occupants of the Porch has already received a good deal of attention, but also demonstrated a regrettable level of talking past one another. This, in no
This piece from the Sunday Times serves as a reminder that the claims made for technology, progress, and modern conveniences are too overblown, and that human beings have fundamental longings and needs that can’t be satisfied by texting and TV.…
The New Yorker examines the animating ideas behind OWS. I suppose this is what happens when childishness, boredom, social media, anxiety, and apocalypticism mix. Or, history repeating itself as farce. “Forming loose connections quickly” hardly seems like a recipe for…
Walter Russell Mead takes on the Baby Boomers.
In 2010, for the first time in our nation’s history, men constituted a minority of the nation’s workforce. Colleges typically boast a 60-40 female-male ratio. Women make up an ever-larger percentage of corporate executives and other high-paying high-profile positions. It…
