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 May 1, 2011 - May 31, 2011

Tuesday
May312011

Baby-boomer theology?

David Brooks realizes that the bourgeois notion of happiness is mendacious.
Friday
May202011

Buying credentials

Rich Lowry points out that while students loan debt has surpassed credit card debt for the first time ever, all that money is not really spent primarily on learning.
Thursday
May192011

The religious sense and agriculture

This story is interesting because it challenges the conventional (and still totally dominant) Marxist interpretation of history (that material factors shape culture, never the other way around).
Tuesday
May172011

Book review

Fr.Ian Ker has written a new biography of G.K. Chesterton.
Sunday
May082011

Preconception

A clear discussion of the nature of ideology.
Thursday
May052011

Give us sages on stages

Two interesting pieces on Catholic schools in New York City.