Hatred of the human

Le Corbusier as an extreme representative of totalitarian ideology.

Lenses of faith

Ralph Wood on Flannery O'Connor.

We are at the beginning stages of Christianity

A very interesting interview with Remi Brague. If you want more, here is another one.

Wholesale destruction

Stabbing young people in the back.

A word from God

An interview with Cormac McCarthy.

By whom?

There is some truth to the fact that many doubts about the new health reform reflect the question: by whom is the system going to be run? What mentality, what culture? Public policy does not operate in some timeless cultural vacuum, and nowadays it is not difficult to meet people who think like British social workers.

Who are we?

Newt Gingrich's weaknesses do not justify Dana Milbank's profound cynicism.

Love of knowledge

E.D. Hirsch makes sense.

Running out?

Rumors about peak oil.

Learning how to look

“Usually, we look at things superficially, accept them as they seem to be. Hunting for mushrooms shows that, if you go deeper, you can find things you didn’t know were there.”

Wandering around

The contemporary phenomenon of extended adolescence also reflects an inability to judge the meaning and significance of one's life, that is to have experiences.

Unbelievable!

Galileo was Catholic. What is scary is the power of historical brainwashing.

Not a scintilla of faith

A rather thoughtful column, which unfortunately fails to realize that the problem cannot just be formulated in moral terms.

Absolute power

A dictatorship of social workers.

Speaking of change

Simon Johnson on the new American plutocracy.