Author Archives: PaulVK

HT. Sam Boldenow http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38166185

Princeton Is Latest Ivy League School to Suspend Team Over Vulgar Materials http://nyti.ms/2hMjWrv

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/15/best-books-2016/

JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ, Founder and CEO, Acumen:  When I was six years old, my first grade nun, Sister Mary Theophane, beat it into my head to whom much is given much is expected.  And so, I always wanted to change the world. … Continue reading →

I thought of you when I read this quote from “Kierkegaard: A Single Life” by Stephen Backhouse – “One of Hegel’s Big Ideas was that the historical development of art, religion, and philosophy told us something true about the development … Continue reading →

http://biologos.org/blogs/guest/scientists-find-feathered-dinosaur-tail-preserved-in-amber

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503129818/study-finds-students-have-dismaying-inability-to-tell-fake-news-from-real NBC report on Macedonians and fake news. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fake-news-how-partying-macedonian-teen-earns-thousands-publishing-lies-n692451

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/12/valid-more-than-one-gender/ Some people feel strongly that they have a fixed gender, but my gender feels more like a performance. When I do my nails, for example, I’m performing a certain American version of femininity. When I’m playing sports, I’m performing … Continue reading →

“There is another way in which it may predispose to conversion. The difficulty of converting an uneducated man nowadays lies in his complacency. Popularized science, the conventions or ‘unconventions’ of his immediate circle, party programmes, etc., enclose him in a … Continue reading →

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/madness-of-globalism/ Global inequality: http://glineq.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/should-some-countries-cease-to-exist.html