According to The Independent of London, a study by Professor Piercarlo Valdesolo of Claremont McKenna College in the journal Psychological Science has shown that religious belief begins with awe inspired not by the supernatural but by the natural world. “It’s not that the presence of the supernatural elicits awe, it’s that awe elicits the perception…
Could there have been some method to the Republicans’ madness when they blundered into the government shutdown? — From The New Criterion of November, 2013
In whose interest is the new cultural project to cut us off from the past? — From The American Spectator of November, 2013
Listening to Rush Limbaugh last week, I was struck by the caller who told El Rushbo that, up until the moment of her call, she had never been able to bring herself to reveal to a pollster her disapproval of President Obama for fear of being thought — by the pollster! — a racist. Now…
A visual delight which there are numerous but often mutually contradictory reasons for feeling guilty about enjoying
The racial grievance industry proves that there is life still in the biggest grievance of all, thought by the merely naive far to ante-date any living memory
On Monday, November 18th, I spoke to a meeting sponsored by the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary, about the Russian director Yuri Mamin’s film, Window to Paris of 1993, which we then watched and discussed. My remarks on this occasion follow: It’s a legend reaching far back into the Middle Ages, perhaps as far back…
A propos of my New Criterion piece of last June,”Theories of Relativity,” after a brief quiescence, the left’s furious campaign against “austerity” continues, and nowhere more vehemently than in the pages of The Guardian. My recent favorite, which must take the prize for the most far-fetched reason to hate the austerocrats, whoever they may be,…
We console ourselves for our inability to remedy the evils in the world by insisting on our morally creditable feelings about them — From The New Criterion of October, 2013
Who needs the humanities? It’s a more interesting question than why they are needed, which no one seems to know — From The American Spectator of October, 2013
