Monthly Archives: May 2012

David Brooks cannot resist the temptation to present himself as public moralist even when discussing the career choices of the 'student elite' as in this essay of of May 24, 2012 obliquely titled The Service Patch. A side note: Mr. … Continue reading →

Should the attentive reader of Mr. David Brooks essay of May 17, 2012, titled How Change Happens, be surprised that he chooses the Wall Street Journal and the National Review as the sources of evaluations of the business practices of … Continue reading →

Mr. Brooks in his essay of May 17, 2012 appropriates his title from Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name. Mr. Brook's meditation might better be called The Age of Cynicism: as it takes the careful, and quite precise … Continue reading →

  I’ve just finished a Reinhold Niebuhr biography by Richard Fox published in 1985. That I find Mr. Niebuhr repugnant as person and Christian Moralist is a statement of my prejudice, without apology. I felt that I wanted to understand … Continue reading →

http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5562860/Habermas/?site_locale=… Read Peter E. Gordon’s review in The New Repulic: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/zero-hour-jurgen-habermas#.T7e1YaGGfdo.twitter  

  http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6585778/?site_locale=en_US See this review in The American Conservative, quite surprising. Thank you to Arts and Letters Daily and  Kenneth B. McIntyre.

A review in the TLS of May 18,2012 by Mark Vernon titled New Causes brought me to this book. Mr. Plokinghorne is both scientist and theologin. 

Mr. David Brooks is a propagandist of certain talent and a man given to self-serving political characterizations, indeed he expresses a positive mania for renaming. Should we consider him a Nominalist? In his essay of May 7, 2012 titled The … Continue reading →

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