Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

Dreher, he links to Sullivan and you can retrace back from there. And Douthat joins in, or rather he started it. 

http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/5430/full HT: The Dish But where do our ideas about the meaning of liberty come from? This is the topic addressed by Larry Siedentop in his erudite and elegantly-written Inventing the Individual. No doubt to the dismay of many, Siedentop’s thesis … Continue reading →

The week That’s why the premier liberal virtue is toleration and not recognition. Toleration is perfectly compatible with — indeed, it presupposes — a lack of unanimity, or even majority consensus, about ultimate goods. It leaves the diversity of views … Continue reading →

http://elitedaily.com/dating/sex/the-hook-up-culture-only-exists-because-this-generation-has-never-fallen-in-love/

From the YALT Taskforce

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We see ourselves as able to control our own destiny, able to discern for ourselves what is right and wrong , and we see God as obligated to arrange things for our benefit, especially if we live a good enough … Continue reading →

But an important point is that, once again as with “scientific” proofs of atheism, it is not the cast-iron intellectual reasoning which convinces, but the relief of revolt. Whether one wants to take refuge in this will depend, first, on … Continue reading →

The devil was disturbed and feared most that after he had filled the world with sins, there would now come someone to take away the sins of the world. Cromatius