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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Gift of Christmas - Jennifer Roback MorseDear Concerned Citizen: Material comfort does not satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart. This might sound strange coming from the lips of a libertarian economist from the Hoover Institution at Stanford. But we all know it, especially at Christmas, because most of us have at least a vague dissatisfaction with the commercialism of the season. Read more... The Great Disruption - FRANCIS FUKUYAMAWhile Francis Fukuyama may fail to appreciate the many ways in which Christianity supports and nourishes both human nature and human society, he makes such an important contribution to clarifying the moral and social confusion of our age that we have decided to offer his brilliant Atlantic Monthly article. Read more... The Happiness Myth - Steve SalernoOne morning when I was 13, I elbowed my father as he got ready for work. "Dad," I said, "are you happy?" Read more... The Idolatry of Law: When Law is Seen as “Like Religion” - Iain T. BensonA very significant and striking exchange occurred between Chief Justice McLachlin and University of Chicago theologian and philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain during the October 2002 Conference "Pluralism, Religion and Public Policy." Read more... The Illusion of Disillusionment - CHRISTOPHER LASCHThere is a vast body of commentary on the modern spiritual plight, all of which assumes that the experience of doubt, moral relativism, and despair is distinctively modern and, in some sense, the product of mankind's "maturity." Read more... The Illusion of Moral Neutrality - J. BudziszewskiProperly understood, what is this thing called tolerance? What does it really demand of us? What do we need in order to come by it? Let’s see if we can work this out. Read more... The Intolerance of Humanism - RICHARD BASTIENMalcolm Muggeridge once recounted how foreign journalists posted in Moscow during the 1930s used to amuse themselves by measuring the credulity of visiting intellectuals. Read more... The Legacy of Ayn Rand - Charles ColsonRationalizing Selfishness. Read more... The Lovely Dragon of Choice - Anthony EsolenThe simple knight Percival, on the quest for the Holy Grail, had not been much of a planner. Read more... The Moral Case for Manners - J. BudziszewskiFor many reasons we find that courtesy and good manners need more than teaching and reinforcement today, they need an intellectual defense. If we cannot make a moral case for manners, we had better give them up. In brief, then, here is what might be called the theory of manners, which is part of the applied theory of virtue. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:05:38
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