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Stanley Fish chews at length over Jurgen Habermas’s new position on religion. Habermas, an ardent Enlightenment secularist, now recognizes that secularity is missing something essential to being human. That, he now believes, is the religious sense. Habermas now believes that we need religion, and it should be admitted into polite society as long as it…

A great Edge exchange between Evgeny Morozov and Clay Shirky about how the Internet and digital technology works to affect power relations within polities. Morozov says he thinks techno-utopians in the press are taking a too-narrow view of how the Internet conditions and subverts power relationships in society: One of the reasons I’ve been so…

Time for a Southern culture break. Caroline Langston writes an affectionate appreciation of Southern Baptists she grew up with in Mississippi, and takes note of the ambiguous phrase “Big Baptists,” with which many Southerners will be familiar. Excerpt: So what was a Big Baptist? Depending on my mother’s mood, the phrase could be a compliment…

From an e-mail someone who attended Ruthie’s benefit concert sent to me this morning: I cried on my way home after having tears when I pulled into the benefit and saw all of the cars filling the parking lot. The next morning, I was trying to tell my husband about everything, and I cried then…
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