Author Archives: PaulVK

London Review of Books HT the Dish If the meat industry looks ugly now, it is nothing to what it might be like if and when India and China catch up with the levels of meat consumption in the West. One … Continue reading →

Was Nietzsche Right about Religion? Awkwardly, Nietzsche pointed out that liberal values derive from Jewish and Christian monotheism, and rejected these values for that very reason. There is no basis – whether in logic or history – for the prevailing notion … Continue reading →

Link following Christian Smith too.

A Bang-Up Job, Ctd http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/andrewsullivan/rApM/~3/HsDLJhAjF90/

Reformation 21 Marsden ends The Twilight of the American Enlightenment with reflections on the dead-end to which we have come. Consensus liberalism suffers from a fatal dishonesty. Because it claims to serve the common good and at the same time sustain authenticity … Continue reading →

HT The Dish Pacific Standard

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/03/immigration_my.html

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/your-questions-my-answers-ii/ Some interesting ones here on Obama and a gay man. And round 3 on climate change and Christianity http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/your-questions-my-answers-iii/ The ghost at the atheist feast The Confidence of Jerry Coyne  

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/whos-more-famous-than-jesus.html There are many varieties of fame. Jesus Christ was the first person to achieve it globally, Clive James wrote, “without conquering the world by violence.” The best kind for a poet to earn, W. H. Auden said, is like … Continue reading →