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http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/SociologyofRel… I just received my September 16, 2011 issue of the TLS. In it is Bernice Martin’s review titled Feel the Power in which she reviews A Sociology of Religious Emotion. Ms. Martin does engage in a disagreement with Jurgen … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/opinion/brooks-obama-rejects-obamaism.html?_r=4&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss    "I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.”  It is a rather well worn rhetorical trope to make oneself the butt of one’s criticism of another by indirection. Mr. Brooks like so many others … Continue reading →

Just rereading pages 340 to 343 on the cogito. ‘When someone says I am thinking therefore I am, or exist, he does not deduce existence from thought by means of a syllogism, but  recognizes it as something self-evident by a … Continue reading →

I know you've all been waiting for my story on Ms. Huffington, but one must admit that when it comes to insider reporting, dripping with rhetorical treacle and a certain cattiness, Elizabeth Rubin at Vogue has outdone everyone, who has … Continue reading →

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http://www.salon.com/life/ask_wayne/index.html?story=/ent/col/2011/09/16/ask_wayne&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110 Dearest Wayne, The vicissitudes that fate visits upon us all is rather breathtaking. A dizzy old queen dispensing advice to an audience of desperate heteros, brings the notion of irony to a rather bleak dead end! But anyone who … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/brooks-the-planning-fallacy.html?_r=1&hp It is easy to imagine that at breakfast tables, lunch rooms , dinner tables and even at swank dinner parties in the suburbs of the capitol, the political homilies of Mr. David Brooks are the subject of many conversations, … Continue reading →

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903999904576468011530847064.html Perhaps you thought that the Right Wing attack on the Academy had lost some of its steam, its power to accuse scholars, teachers and other academic figures of cultural, if not political subversion of the most heinous kind? The … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/opinion/if-it-feels-right.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Cockeyed Platonist (CP) is in a tizzy. Why you ask? The sky is falling? Hold on to your hats! The Younger Generation is going to the dogs, morally. (Does anyone remember Harold Hill?)  They don’t even know what morality … Continue reading →