Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

Is free speech getting increasingly chilled? I have no perspective from which to evaluate this piece or the proposed rule changes for lawyers but I find the item noteworthy. Dreher ABA Journal

Peter Enns

Slate

CBC

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/05/the-rise-of-the-anti-culture HT: Dreher Anti-culture followup    In assessing the nature of that “coin” Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn has put it well, “… the therapeutic sensibility [has replaced] justice with personal liberation – defined as pursuit of impulse, thus distorting politics by making … Continue reading →

http://quillette.com/2016/05/02/purity-and-tolerance-the-contradictory-morality-of-college-campuses/ Increasingly college students throughout the United States complain of perceived slights they call microaggressions, they demand safe spaces where they can be protected from harmful ideas, and they ask for trigger warnings to alert them to course material that … Continue reading →

Christianity Today

Washington Post “Something came over me, I think the Lord came to me, and he just said get in the truck and leave,” Shupetold an ABC affiliate. “And when I got in my truck, you know, I was so proud, … Continue reading →

Books and Culture But let’s take Dietrich at his words, however vague, just for now. If you unravel the argumentative thread of Excellent Beauty, it reads as follows: A) All religions require belief in some transcendent reality; B) Since science … Continue reading →

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