Mental haze

More than anything, the gay-marriage story reveals an amazing level of mental confusion, which in turn stems from a deep-seated inability to ask fundamental questions. If marriage is just a state endorsement of our romantic relationships, why is that in the public interest? And why do we want to confer on the state such power?

Vatican Insider

A new website entirely dedicated to the Vatican.

Extraordinary in the ordinary

This weekend Clemente Vismara will be declared a blessed.

Collective amnesia

Make sure your children learn history.

Intentionality

A great article (but quite long) on neuroscience.

"Largely symbolic"

Finally the modern attempt to have "Christianity without Christ" is truly coming to an end.

Alarming

An article in the New Republic on the predicament of the Copts

Perplexing

This article hints that the collapse of Catholic urban education is a crisis of collective motivation and morale at least as much as it is a financial problem.

What about philosophy? Or common sense?

It is typical that in order to describe a type of knowledge that is not just empirical/quantitative, Jim Manzi can only find the word "ideological." That's the positivist dicotomy: either it is "scientific" or it is "ideological."