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I’m really enjoying Templeton Prize winner Charles Taylor’s massive tome, “A Secular Age.” Unlike most philosophers, Taylor is a crystal-clear writer, and has the gift of being able to discuss profound and complex thoughts without giving himself over to impenetrable jargon. In the passage I read last night, Taylor discusses the fundamental psychological shift that…

I don’t care what you’re doing, stop right now and watch this video postcard from New Orleans last night, passed along by a fellow Louisiana expat. Imagine the joy of these people, who have been down for so long, but who last night were on top of the world. Watch especially the bus driver —…

That’s the implication of a new cosmological finding. Excerpt from the report in New Scientist: If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we…

I watched the big game at the home of new friends and neighbors, all folks with Front Porch Republic sympathies. This morning, one of our crew, a Catholic theologian, writes to say: Every adult in the house last night was a serious Christian who engages with modernity with some degree of circumspection and critical distance.…
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