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 June 1, 2013 - June 30, 2013

Thursday
Jun272013

The question of love

A piece by Eve Tushnet.
Wednesday
Jun262013

Humanitarian vanity

What is striking about the idea that the justice system serves essentially a theurapeutic function is the extreme narcissism of its proponents.
Saturday
Jun222013

The end of democracy?

The truth is that democracy requires that the rulers and the ruled share in some common ideals, that bind them together (and, no, economic expansion and maximum sexual freedom do not count as "ideals")
Friday
Jun212013

Call a duck a duck

An op-ed on euthanasia in Quebec by Margaret Somerville.
Wednesday
Jun122013

Corrosive Ideology

Phil Lawler supports Wieseltier's attack against scientism.