Pressuring The President, Ctd – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast “A blogger who is not prepared to make a total fool out of himself is not a real blogger.”

Happiness Vs. Blessedness Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You – Restoration Roundtable

Out of Ink: You Were Lucky, Hershiser

Same-Sex Marriage Makes a Lot of Sense – White Horse Inn Blog “It’s something like Nietzsche’s narrative—the “Nowhere Man” poised to make something of his own individualism and will to power—that creates the plausibility structure of contemporary living in the West. Its central dogma is the will to power and its doxology is actually self-congratulatory, […]

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The Benefits Of Being Bilingual Jonah Lehrer, Wired Science » Frontal Cortex

Some Burkean Thoughts on SSM Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Risky Business | Commonweal magazine “Why are there so few conservative professors?” The risky economics of the profession.

Göbekli Tepe – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine “It is more as if the occupants of various archaeological sites were all playing with the building blocks of civilization, looking for combinations that worked. In one place agriculture may have been the foundation; in another, art and religion; and over there, population pressures or social […]