Culture, High & Low 728

The Reader Objects!: If God is Personal and Loving above all, if the Christian believes reason is fundamentally preceded by what is revealed in Faith, then what grounds has the…

The technological fun house that is the modern home makes the great outdoors pale by comparison, if, that is, the expectation is immediate and constant bursts of electronic stimulation.

The neighborly arts begin at home, extend outward in service to others, and return in the form of gratitude, friendships, and commitments born of practical skills shared and received.

Benedict's encyclical responds to the elite technocrats of the liberal order more charitably than they deserve. It is true that, in mundane circumstances, liberal society often professes a congenial relativism,…

The disposition that characterizes the modern mind--a disposition that favors as its ideal a skeptical “view from nowhere,”--serves to undermine the very elements that make community possible.

On the threshold between two unchosen ways of life - one of commitments, the other of choices. Both give rise to discontents, but ours today makes them a way of…

Rod Dreher likes the iPad. What does that say about progress?

I can’t seem to get the Orwellian thought of a “National Department of Bigness” out of my head – where everything is kept small and local…except the Department.

Ross Douthat reflects on the way in which globalization, the mass media, and participatory democracy make local control so difficult to maintain.

Why "Great Books" curricula aren't all they're cracked up to be.

It is no wonder that we fallen mortals would drive a heavy spike through the opened hands of Christ, bloodily impaling him atop the rocky pate of Golgotha.

The hidden connection between our two academic orthodoxies - post-modernism and scientific research.

The rise and fall of Tiger Woods leads to a brief meditation both on beauty and virtue.

David Brooks offers an unstinting positive assessment of Phillip Blond's alternative to the current Left/Right alignment.

A woman head coach of a boy's high school football team robs the players of a male role model and diminishes the bonds of male camaraderie.

Phillip Blond to lecture in Washington D.C and Philadelphia - thanks to FPR

On Earthquakes and Avatar

Heaven forbid. . .

Hooking up is almost bound to emerge as a norm among young adults in a large-scale society where mobility is highly prized and cultivated.

  Today marks the first anniversary of the Front Porch Republic.  Such a milestone provides an opportunity to cast a quick glance back on the year and indicate a bit…

When economic growth finally levels off, what kind of world comes after? Shall we be unchained from the mad rush for money of the last century? Or will other but…

Yes, a good dinner conversation is akin to chimps licking fleas off each other because it is a way of bonding and establishing relationships and hierarchies within the group.

What we need today is not a generation that is “spiritual, not religious.” I would argue that what is needed is the studied capacity to be “religious, not spiritual."

David Brooks on the meritocracy: good critique, bad conclusion.