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 February 1, 2013 - February 28, 2013

Wednesday
Feb272013

Monopoly

A very informative article on the healt care system in the US.
Wednesday
Feb202013

All about love...

An article on our friend Prof. David Schindler.
Wednesday
Feb132013

Give it a couple of centuries

Does Philip Jenkins really think that Europe could have been re-evangelized in 7 years?
Wednesday
Feb132013

Meet the Lumineers

How to become successful musicians by moving to Denver, where people talk to you. An example that the heart is still alive and people really are waiting for something.
Wednesday
Feb132013

Escaping into worse oppression

A nice comparison of "Downton Abbey" vs. "Girls." In fact, depicting the past as 'oppressive' is the essential device that our permissive society uses in order to justify its own nihilism.
Wednesday
Feb062013

Look at me! I am not irrelevant or dead!

Brendan O'Neill is always fun to read.
Tuesday
Feb052013

Fifty years later

Peter Hitchens makes a good point: the whole gay-marriage controversy reflects the fact that civil marriage has become perfectly meaningless.
Tuesday
Feb052013

Not cynical at all

Michael Gerson on the lastest HHS draft rule.
Tuesday
Feb052013

What "public" means

Michelle Rhee on paying attention to reality over abstractions.