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Atheist Delusions 6
Date: 08/20/2009
David Bentley Hart, a historian of ideas, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies , examines "faith and reason" to provide historical context for what has happened with New Atheists. The New Atheists, he contends, propagate a myth in telling the story of (Western) civilization. Namely, that the Age of Faith was an age of superstition and the Age of Reason ...
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Atheist Delusions 5
Date: 08/18/2009
David Bentley Hart, a historian of ideas, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies , examines "faith and reason" to provide historical context for what has happened with New Atheists. Did history move from the Age of Faith to the Age of Reason? Was this from superstition to enlightenment? Do the new atheists frame the story this way? Is it appropriate to ...
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The problem of pornography
Date: 07/14/2009
Recently I had dinner with a friend who teaches in a private (secular) high school. He mentioned at one point how much he worried about his students, who were heavily into watching pornography. Notice the placement of the comma in that sentence. Porn is so ubiquitous and normalized among the (well-off) kids in his school that it's considered the usual thing to partake of it. My friend went on to s ...
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The bridal party got Botox
Date: 07/25/2008
What a sick, stupid culture we live in. The new trend is brides pushing their bridesmaids to have Botox, boob jobs and other cosmetic enhancements before the wedding. It's the Late Roman Empire, I tells ya! Excerpt: Five years ago, plastic surgeons, dermatologists and tooth-whitening centers "were virtually absent" from bridal expos, said William F. Heaton III, the president of the Great Brida ...
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Porn and the pelvic spa
Date: 07/02/2008
Onward and upward with consumerism in these Late Roman Empire days : With the ubiquity of pornography, the pelvis had already become a marketable area for modification, ranging from the Brazilian bikini wax to genital surgery referred to as vaginal "rejuvenation." Doctors have even coined a term for such genital "beautification": cosmetogynecology or cosmogynecology. The advent of the pelvic s ...
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Cincinnatus or Benedict?
Date: 07/31/2007
Here's my column from Sunday's Dallas Morning News, about Cullen Murphy's book " Are We Rome? " Excerpt: Are we Rome? That is, are we Americans, citizens of the mightiest empire the world has known since the days of the Caesars, living in the last days of our civilization? Is the United States, like the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, doomed to collapse from its own decadence? Or c ...
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"Are We Rome?"
Date: 06/12/2007
[From last Friday, in Istanbul]: On the plane over here I read a fascinating new book that I highly recommend for readers of this blog who are interested in history, morals and cultural change: "Are We Rome?" by Cullen Murphy. The author examines the parallels between the Late Roman Empire and latter-day America, with an eye toward discerning what lessons the United States could learn from the ...
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"Are We Rome?"
Date: 06/08/2007
On the plane over here I read a fascinating new book that I highly recommend for readers of this blog who are interested in history, morals and cultural change: "Are We Rome?" by Cullen Murphy. The author examines the parallels between the Late Roman Empire and latter-day America, with an eye toward discerning what lessons the United States could learn from the fate of the Western Empire, in h ...
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Paglia and me
Date: 04/22/2007
Here's my column from today's paper, based on my interview with Camille Paglia. It's probably the only place in the history of the written word you will find the names of Camille Paglia and Russell Kirk in the same paragraph, to say nothing of the phrase "feminist bisexual maniac." Excerpt: Our cultural crisis is precisely that serious, says Dr. Paglia, who believes â as does Pope Benedict, ...
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La dolce Camille
Date: 04/12/2007
I had a blast today talking on the phone with Camille Paglia. I hadn't spoken to her in several years. I'm writing a column in connection with a local humanities event she had something to do with, so I'm saving my choicest quotes for the paper, but I can share some of our conversation here. I was pleased (though not surprised) by how much we agree on the culturally desolating quality of moderni ...
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