Paper Clippings The Blog of The Crossroads Cultural Center

Paper Clippings, more than a classical blog, is a service providing valuable reading material in order to help readers reach a judgment about current affairs. Comments and discussion are more than welcome.

Sunday
Aug302020

GDP Fetish

Oren Cass on the difference between high material living standards and a good life.
Sunday
Aug302020

Falling Apart

Glen Greenwald on the great American mental health crisis.
Monday
Aug242020

New Thinkers

David Brooks on some intellectual ferment on the right.
Friday
Jan312020

Weavers

David Brooks on the mendacity of unrestrained individualism.
Friday
Jan102020

Being someone

Identity politics as cover for an existential void.
Tuesday
Dec102019

Void

One more analysis of decline but thought provoking.
Monday
Nov042019

Hardwired

John Waters on the religious sense.
Wednesday
Oct092019

Ghosts

Margaret Harper McCarthy on an upcoming Supreme Court decision.
Friday
Sep272019

"Not a healthy thing to do"

Arthur Koestler's experience illustrates well the nature of ideology.
Monday
Sep022019

Long term thinking

A great interview with Paul Polman.
Thursday
Aug222019

The explanation of everything

Damon Linker on the ideological nature of the 1619 Project.
Saturday
May112019

Forgotten

An extract from the new book by Chris Arnade. UPDATE -- An excellent interview with the author.
Tuesday
May072019

Journeying towards faith

Speaking of David Brooks, an interesting interview.
Tuesday
Apr302019

An age of fear

Another fine column by David Brooks.
Monday
Apr292019

The largest Christian country

New things are happening in the 21st century.