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 October 1, 2013 - October 31, 2013

Saturday
Oct262013

Creative minorities

On a recent appearance by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
Saturday
Oct052013

Catastrophe

John Allen sounds the alarm on anti-Christian persecutions around the world. One wonders why he had to publish this piece in England in The Spectator.
Saturday
Oct052013

Neo-feudalism

Another interesting analysis by Joel Kotkin. However, his sociological analysis ignores the philosophical attitudes which underpin these new social trends: the radical positivistic-bourgeois ideology of the affluent society, which has started in the 1950's as a cult of "production" and has since turned "green."
Tuesday
Oct012013

What comes first

A recollection by Archbishop Filippo Santoro about the 2007 "Aparecida" conference of the South American bishops.