Politics of the Soul. A combination of personal commentary and portal to sites related to political philosophy. No loyalty here to contemporary political brand names such as conservative or liberal. I might even prefer "government of the soul", which, in both its connotations, is what will ultimately save us.
The Anniversary of Smith
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(Posted one day late) Employment Division v. Smith was decided 34 years ago
today: April 17, 1990. Someone born after Smith still couldn't assume the
presi...
U.S.A. fact of the day
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Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the
rate of the U.S. population as a whole. The jump in Latino entrepreneurship
has ...
Thursday Throughput: Video Triple Play
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I'm cooking up a throughput linkorama for next week. But for now, here's
some videos I've dropped recently.
The post Thursday Throughput: Video Triple Pl...
A Hallucinogenic and Unrepentant Rant
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Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser in the infamous 2018 confirmation
hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has written an
unrepentant and inc...
The morning read for Thursday, April 18
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[image: The morning read for Thursday, April 18]Each weekday, we select a
short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related
to ...
The Supreme Court’s Symbolic Code of Conduct
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Two things seem true about modern professional life. One, most professional
activities nowadays (legal ones, anyway) are backed by a code of
conduct—roughl...
Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people
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In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I
haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is
generall...
Material Mysticism #4
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I did my utmost to marry generative AI with the best of ancient Christian
scholarship to resurrect a lost African saint while avoiding the Google
Gemini fi...
Young Worker Exodus from Low Pay Japan
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Outbound 'r' Us.
China is famously in dire economic straits, but how's Japan *really* doing
to solve its longstanding problems like a dearth of working-a...
A Notice
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The editors at the Catholic University of America Press are asking me to
take down the “work-in-progress” edition of Bekkos’s On the Union and Peace
of the...
Nothing Matters
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One thing that jumps out at me about the current political scene is that
people are killing and dying for things that do not matter. This would be a
shame ...
My Political Apology
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Dr. Alice C. Linsley
History suggests that nations rise and fall because of leaders who put
their own interests ahead of the welfare of the people the...
Job-market reporting thread (2023-24 season)
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(UPDATE - Sept 6th, 2013, 1:37pm: permalink to this thread on the blog's
right sidebar has been corrected!) I know it's still very early in the job
market ...
Growth into Great Things (Augustine)
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There’s an Augustine quote, widely available on all of the “Swell
Quotations” websites, that just seems too good to be true. Here it is:
“Really great th...
A Time of Transition at Religion & Politics
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For all of us at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at
Washington University in St. Louis, this is a time of …
The post A Time of Transi...
HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther
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How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses
Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts.
Benefits of Student Reflection
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Today we have a guest post from Colin Brown, assistant teaching professor,
and Jennifer Ostojski, Ph.D. candidate, from the political science
department at...
Here’s your Situation Update for December 8, 2020.
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Welcome to your Situation Update, a once-regular feature from Insurgentsia
that covers irregular war and runs extremely sporadically. The weather
forecast ...
belief
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Scholars of religion generally agree that belief is a Western, Christian,
and even Protestant construction that obscures more than illuminates the
lives of...
Situs Taruhan Slot Online Terpercaya
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Bettor tak bisa bergantung sepenuhnya pada kemenangan di situs taruhan slot
online terpercaya. Nominal kemenangan tak selalu besar, apalagi untuk
bettor ...
Donor Outreach Manager
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The Franklin News Foundation supports and funds public-interest journalism
at the state and local levels. Franklin is dedicated to the principles of
tran...
A Message from Carnegie Council
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To all members of the Global Ethics Network:
It is with deep affection for this extraordinary community that Carnegie
Council is today announcing the clo...
My First “All Nighter”
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An annual tradition, the Mother’s Day post. When I was in the third or
fourth grade, my mom signed me up for this after school space program. She
was a si...
The Return of Storytelling in a Digital Age
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Podcast stories, like reading, have the advantage of engaging the
audience’s imagination. And lest the technophobes among us decry the
dominance of
The...
Maggie O’Brien – ‘Easy for You to Say,’
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Because it is ‘easy for you to say,’ are you any more or less justified to
speak on specific topics? In her thoughtful and well-written paper, ‘Easy
for Yo...
We’re Moving!
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[image: photo of a packed-up office with lots of moving boxes]
Some personal news: All things have a life cycle, and in this instance it
is time for Prof...
The Humane Pursuits of Brian Brown
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A fond farewell: Former Pray Channel editor toasts HP and its founder in
this, our 1,000th (and final) post. ...
The post The Humane Pursuits of Brian B...
Improving Policy Debates
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I agree with much of Eliot Cohen’s criticism of the Munich Security
Conference. I like his creative phrases, but the SAIS professor is too
harsh, too mac...
Goodnight, and Good Luck!
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After four wonderful years, I have decided that it is time to move on
from Philosopher. While there won’t be new posts, the existing ones will
remain onlin...
How to Measure Imagination
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Scott Barry Kaufman
*Aspen, Colo.* — A couple of days ago I took a walk down a narrow, somewhat
perilous mountain trail with Scott Barry Kaufman, scienti...
So long, and thanks for all the fish
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by Massimo Pigliucci
Or, as the title of the last Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
wistfully announced: “All good things…”
This is the last Ration...
Silence and Returns
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Some of you may have noticed I have been silent for a rather long while.
Some of you may also have noticed I broke my silence over the last few
days, but w...
Denver-area pro-lifers, take note
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The 2013 Denver March for Life will take place Sunday, Jan. 20 outside the
capitol building. Mass begins at the cathedral at 10:30, while speeches
begin at...
The Austerity Trap: Is Past Prologue?
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Predictably, the unemployment rate rises above 25 percent, riots and
demonstrations ensue, and an extreme right-wing party rapidly gains
adherents. What th...
Introducing The Conversation
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Brainstorm readers: We’re excited to call your attention to The
Conversation, *The Chronicle’*s new home for opinion and ideas online.
Building on Brains...
John F. Nash Jr. was best known for advances in game theory, which is essentially the study of how to come up with a winning strategy in the game of life — especially when you do not know what your competitors are doing and the choices do not always look promising.
The film “A Beautiful Mind,” based on Dr. Nash’s life, tries to explain game theory in a scene in which Russell Crowe, playing Dr. Nash, is at a bar with three friends, and they are all enraptured by a beautiful blond woman who walks in with four brunette friends...
Dr. Nash did not invent game theory; the mathematician John von Neumann did the pioneering work to establish the field in the first half of the 20th century. But Dr. Nash extended the analysis beyond zero-sum, I-win-you-lose types of games to more complex situations in which all of the players could gain, or all could lose....
Dr. David Bradshaw, Professor of Philosophy at University of Kentucky specializes in the philosophical division between the Greek-speaking East and Latin-speaking West. Interviewed by Russian clergy, he talks about the relationship between theology and philosophy. Several of his articles can be found online at the link below...
Kerry wants to propose this to whoever owns the loan, but this brings
him to this peculiar problem mortgage owners face now. They have no idea
who that is. Richard's loan has been bought, and sold, and resold, and
put into one of those pools owned by investors
I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another. - Socrates, Memorabilia
Salus populi suprema lex esto. -Cicero, De Legibus
What we maintain is that in none of the problems of life can men afford to lose sight of the storehouse bequeathed to them by the ancients. In the complexus of everything which differentiates man from the brute creation, the voice of antiquity must be heard...
-H. Browne, quoted in "Classics and Citizenship" The Classical Quarterly, 1920