Category Archives: culture

It’s about human nature

Posted on November 2, 2010 by David Hume

I had dinner with an old friend today, and he inquired of me why I define myself as a conservative. After all, on many “hot button” issues I’m arguably a social liberal, and my attitude toward government and its current … Continue reading →

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Bell, Diversity Handbook and Candle

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner: It’s been well over 350 years since the death of the unlikable Matthew Hopkins but should Britain ever get back into the business of hiring a Witchfinder-General (check out the 1968 movie of the same … Continue reading →

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Bolls, Gringes and Freits

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner The English enjoy their ghosts. Via the Independent here’s the distinguished writer and historian Peter Ackroyd with some highly entertaining background. This extract gives a taste: The quintessential English ghost story is alarming but also … Continue reading →

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Same Old, Same Old

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Economist, news of priests up to their old tricks, this time it’s Buddhist clergymen, in Ceylon: Real-life lewdness is also out. In July police rounded up hundreds of red-faced couples caught holding hands, cuddling and kissing in public. … Continue reading →

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Albert Mohler!

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Albert Mohler serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world—and he blogs. It’s worth taking a look there from time to … Continue reading →

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The Miraculous Deception

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here (via the Guardian) is just another reminder of the timeless appeal of the miraculous: The name Jesus is stamped behind the pulpit in thick blue lettering. But at the Pentecostal Church of the Miracle the headline act is not … Continue reading →

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The Religious Left, Again

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via The Economist, here’s a report on the “Lausanne movement”, a grouping of evangelicals founded in 1974 by Billy Graham as a response to the by-the-numbers leftism of the reliably dreadful World Council of Churches. I don’t know how this … Continue reading →

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The gods of the future

Posted on October 22, 2010 by David Hume

I have a long review of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? at Discover Blogs. My co-blogger reviewed it for Taki’s Magazine last June, prompting me to add this book to my “stack.” Well worth the read.

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So How Come Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots?

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

This piece (from Mims’ Bits) on the difference between western and Japanese attitudes to robots is a stretch. Read the whole thing, but here’s an extract: Heather Knight, founder of the world’s first (non-industrial) robot census, has made the study … Continue reading →

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Breaker of idols

Posted on October 16, 2010 by David Hume

Jacob Weisberg, Yale graduate, and defender of the Center-Left Establishment (e.g., In Defense of Robert Rubin), has a long piece out in Slate attacking Peter Thiel. Thiel’s heresy is to encourage young university-aged students to work outside of traditional educational … Continue reading →

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