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, 2013 - May 31, 2013

Wednesday
May292013

Ignorant ignorantia

Leon Wieseltier on the decline of the humanities.
Tuesday
May282013

The center of the universe?

The Lord likes to play with cosmologists.
Tuesday
May212013

Words

David Brooks of the history of the last century through words.
Tuesday
May072013

Intended consequences

These remarks by John Milbank are special case of a general phenomenon: all attempts at "liberating" the individual on the basis of a flawed liberal anthropology end up instead expanding the power of the state.
Saturday
May042013

The myth of the inviolable self

An interesting essay by Alan Jacobs.