Sunday, July 12, 2009

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things on-line that caught my attention this week:

Mark Bauerlein on how conservatives lost the environmentalist movement.

Bill Gates should start his own university.

Terry Eagleton vs. Atheism

Peggy Noonan on Sarah Palin.

Sterling Fluharty on history books

Gordon Wood reviews Eric Slauter, The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution.

Damon Linker on Calvinism and American exceptional ism. Richard Mouw and the "two John Calvins"

A new age of conservative thinkers.

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

D0es our global economy need the ethical underpinnings of Catholicism?

2 comments:

Tim Lacy said...

John,

Thanks for doing this. Our shared interest in religious history, the vagaries of conservatism, and Catholicism keeps me visiting. I especially appreciate the Catholicism-Turbo-Capitalism NYT article. I missed that one.

- Tim

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