Skills to "succeed"

A very good article on higher education. The conclusion, however, is weak: precisely because the problem is cultural (instrumentalism, technocracy, education as the door to the bourgeois life-style), public universities are affected by the same problems as private ones (except for the fact that it is easier to get in).

The end of a world

Mike Winters reviews the last book by George Marsden

Barbarism

Philip Jenkins on Cardinal Mercier.

Better off in the desert?

An interesting symposium on the place of theology in secular academia.

Driving factor

Fareed Zakaria on the role of identity in international politics.

Worldviews matter

It seems hard to believe in universal democracy in a scientistic culture that ultimately recognizes no particular value in the human person. Technical progress and wealth accumulation do not require democracy.

Frenzy

Brendan O'Neill on various stories from Ireland.

Anxiety

Ross Douthat on family structure.

The most concrete thing

Roger Scruton on the human thirst for the sacred.

A very unsuccessful therapy

Brendan O'Neill blames therapy culture for the latest rampage.

Globalized Libertinism

Patrick J. Deneen on the "false consciousness" of the elites.

In the strangest places

A conversion.

On a different planet

If you ever worried that you may be alone in finding most contemporary journalists to be uneducated fools, worry no longer. David Bentley Hart is with you.

A meta-political problem

On the state of the family in the US.

The truth will set you free

Mollie Hemingway on the "power of the powerless" and same-sex marriage.