As It Should Be
Those Vulnerable Not Sins
“A willingness to turn sins into crimes will always end up with a willingness to turn not-sins into crimes. The spectacle of an ATF anti-alcohol SWAT team crashing the wedding at Cana ought to be sufficient to make the chilling point.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 36
Sins and Crimes
“We appear constitutionally incapable of distinguishing sins and crimes . . . When the hounds of righteousness are in full-throated pursuit of any public sin or sickness, it is perilous not to join in the chase. These civic bloodhounds currently have the tobacco companies up a tall pine tree, and while some aesthetic satisfaction can be gained from the spectacle of Philip Morris staring down at us like a concerned possum, there really are some deeper issues at stake.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 35-36
Not Different Truths, Just Different Tribes and Teams
In news that should startle and amaze precisely no one, it appears that a controversy has broken out on Twitter. It happened on this wise. In response to the #BuffaloMassacre and #ReplacementTheory, Jackie Hill Perry tweeted this: “Say what ya want about Farrakhan (because there’s a whole lot to say) but this right here is …
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Nothing Good, I’ll Tell You That
“If knowledge puffs up, what does pseudo-knowledge do?”
The Cultural Mind, p. 33
Letters to Brighten Your Morning
Letter to the Editor: I feel like at some point I recall you mentioning the biblical origin of wives taking their husbands last name at marriage. If this rings a bell, it would be ...
Moral Capital and the Public Square
“When the prodigal son ran off and began spending his inheritance, he did not find himself broke after five minutes of wasting money. When the inheritance is considerable, as ours was, some considerable time may elapse before the checks start to bounce.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 29
Fukuyama Inside Out
Introduction: Francis Fukuyama wrote his influential essay The End of History in 1992, and in terms of the macro-thesis, I think we have to say that it has not aged well. History appears to me like it is just limbering up. Mankind has not reached any kind of apotheosis in the secular state, and we …
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A Little Folding of the Hands to Rest
“Christians aren’t perfect, just asleep on the couch.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 26
Probably All of Them
