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Why has global biodiversity governance failed so badly? - 8th May is World Biodiversity Day, in which we celebrate the remarkable contributions that biodiversity makes to the resilience and productivity of the ear...26 minutes ago
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Colleges Side With Radicals, Their Students Be Damned - The public knows what they are seeing on campuses is not freedom of expression—a sacred American right—but lawlessness and dangerous disorder.1 hour ago
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The new economics of gold investment? - The real, inflation-adjusted, price of gold is high. Historically, a high real gold price has been associated with low inflation-adjusted gold returns ov...2 hours ago
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Do Your Down-Ballot Homework - Your vote matters in down-ballot races more than in the presidential election. Don’t treat them as an afterthought. The post Do Your Down-Ballot Homework...12 hours ago
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You Must Change Your Life: How to Manage Your Email - On April 1, 2004, the problem of email was definitively solved. That was the day Google released Gmail, which remains the best possible implementation of e...12 hours ago
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Some responses to Anthony Annett on Social Democracy and Catholic Social Thought - A little while ago, Anthony Annett had an essay in Commonweal called "The Theology of Social Democracy," the thesis of which was that "Catholic social teac...13 hours ago
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The morning read for Tuesday, May 7 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, May 7]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the ...16 hours ago
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“If you become a monster, the fight is not worth it”: An interview with Dr. Ba - Mouhamadou El Hady Ba is an associate professor of Philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Hady Ba is also the head of the P...18 hours ago
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MIMC at the Conference on International Migration - The Model International Mobility Convention attended the Conference on International Migration at St. Francis College, sharing a global perspective on curr...4 days ago
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The Discovery of the Declaration of Independence by the American People: A Response to Pauline Maier - Pauline Maier's *American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence* (1997) is the best single book on the history of the Declaration of Independe...1 week ago
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The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy - Edited by Sara Brill, Catherine McKeen, The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scho...4 weeks ago
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A Notice - 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...5 weeks ago
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My Political Apology - 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...1 month ago
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Growth into Great Things (Augustine) - 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...8 months ago
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As long-term figures hits 1 million, Tories show they can't - or won't - control immigration - The Conservative Party fought three general elections promising to slash immigration to the tens of thousands. Today’s net migration statistics show that...11 months ago
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A Time of Transition at Religion & Politics - 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...1 year ago
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Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation - Image: [image: Top average salaries for full professors at private doctoral universities] While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in fu...1 year ago
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Inextricably Entangled: White Supremacism and Gun Violence: Buffalo, Uvalde and Beyond - The shootings seem to be coming quicker now. Buffalo, Laguna Woods, Uvalde. During that time there was also a shooting on the New York Subway. During that ...1 year ago
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HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther - 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.2 years ago
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What Pop Stoicism Misses About Ancient Philosophy - It’s not about self-improvement. It’s about being a good member of society.2 years ago
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The State “don’t own a goddamn thing”: Illiberal Religification of the Legal System - MOVE, while an illiberal religion characterized by abrasive rhetoric, is nonetheless an example of the religification of law and the legal system. MOVE act...3 years ago
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belief - Scholars of religion generally agree that belief is a Western, Christian, and even Protestant construction that obscures more than illuminates the lives of...4 years ago
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A Message from Carnegie Council - 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...4 years ago
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A high-noon moment for Pope Francis over the Amazon - Ideological rifts widen as Catholic bishops ponder endangered forests and married priests4 years ago
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The Economics of the Eucharist: What the Bible Really Says About Communing Unworthily - Perhaps no other passage of Scripture has contributed more to pious anxiety than what Paul wrote about the Eucharist in his first letter to the Corinthians...7 years ago
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Denver-area pro-lifers, take note - 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...11 years ago
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Versus the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Friday, October 14, 2011http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/theology-up-for-debate-at-scotus/2011/10/05/gIQAbIuVNL_blog.html
See what organizations are supporting each side:
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/hosanna-tabor-evangelical-lutheran-church-and-school-v-eeoc/
Justice Elena Kagan (appointed by Obama) defends the rights of religious institutions:
http://verdict.justia.com/2011/10/06/hosanna-tabor-evangelical-lutheran-church-and-school-v-eeoc
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Labels: constitution, supreme court, Use for Class 2015
How Conservatives Failed "The Culture"
Monday, October 10, 2011By Claes G. Ryn
Official professions to the contrary, many self-described American intellectual conservatives have a thinly veiled disdain for philosophy and the arts. Even among academics indifference to what lies beyond broad ideas and popular culture is common. The ruling assumption of the now dominant strains of intellectual conservatism seems to be that the crux of social well-being is politics: bad politicians ruin society; good politicians set it right. Nothing fascinates conservatives more than presidential politics. For social problems to be effectively remedied and for worthy objectives to be achieved, “our” candidate must win the next election, “our” people man the government.
... Ideas and the arts are mainly pleasant diversions. Many others have only slight interest in philosophy and culture for their own sake. More or less consciously, they tend to assess either thought or imagination from the point of view of whether it advances or undermines the political cause that they assume to be incontestable. Does the book, lecture, play, movie, or song help or hinder the cause? Although such works may enlighten or entertain, they do not strike these individuals as having intrinsic and independent authority. Works of thought and imagination are for them not intriguing and potentially unsettling forces that might trigger painful self-examination and unpredictably reconstitute one’s own accustomed views; making sense of them is not so much a matter of soul searching as of locating them on the political spectrum.
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Labels: culture, Public Ethics, the Right