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.

Entries from December 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010

Friday
Dec312010

Permanent things

An interview on T.S. Eliot with Thomas Howard.
Thursday
Dec232010

Second-class

We often read about the persecutions of Coptic Christians. This story is also remarkable.
Monday
Dec132010

Pseudo-science

Roger Scruton on the idiocy of applying evolutionary biology where it does not belong.
Thursday
Dec092010

King Kong vs. Godzilla

An interesting clash between the two great ideologies of our time: scientism (the prejudice that empirical science is the only valid method of knowledge) vs. post-modern relativism (the prejudice that there is no truth, only politics). Scientism is going to win.
Monday
Dec062010

Who educates?

Ross Douthat reviews some new statistics. One possible interpretation is that the "educated" elites had wrecked the educational system (in the broadest sense, not just schooling) for everybody else.
Saturday
Dec042010

Distributivism

An interview with Phillip Blond.
Thursday
Dec022010

Floored

The Guardian likes Of God and men.
Thursday
Dec022010

Good news for me

Being a Christian in Afghanistan seems beyond human strength.