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 July 1, 2014 - July 31, 2014

Sunday
Jul272014

Right and Left

An interview with Patrick Deneen.
Wednesday
Jul232014

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).
Tuesday
Jul222014

The end of a world

Mike Winters reviews the last book by George Marsden
Tuesday
Jul222014

Barbarism

Philip Jenkins on Cardinal Mercier.
Saturday
Jul192014

Better off in the  desert?

An interesting symposium on the place of theology in secular academia.
Monday
Jul072014

Driving factor

Fareed Zakaria on the role of identity in international politics.