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The Lucky Ones Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Alain de Botton’s ‘Religion for Atheists’ – NYTimes.com There’s something at stake in these accounts, a person’s whole destiny and soul. The process de Botton is recommending is more like going on one of those self-improving vacations. If all his advice were faithfully followed, we’d be a collection of autonomous individuals seeking a string of […]

Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and con TEDtalksDirector

The Desert Sighs In the Bed Rod Dreher, Rod Dreher

Brain drain | The Spectator “In 1986 Patricia Churchland published Neurophilosophy, arguing that the questions that had been discussed to no effect by philosophers over many centuries would be solved once they were rephrased as questions of neuroscience. This was the first major outbreak of a new academic disease, which one might call ‘neuroenvy’. If […]

ScienceShot: The Woven Brain – ScienceNOW “within those curves is a latticework of nerve fibers that cross each other at roughly right angles”

Rod Dreher » The Perverse Joy of Apocalypse “paranoia is a protest against unimportance”

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Do You Believe In Magic? Thoughts On The New Ownership Group Rob, 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog