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The free market vs. moral character
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Rod Dreher
Jonah Goldberg doesn’t like the way we at Templeton framed our recent symposium discussion, “Does the free market erode moral character?” Excerpt: I love the Templeton Foundation and I think they do fantastic work. But questions like “Does the Free Market Erode Moral Character?” bother me a great deal. As opposed to what? Socialism? Socialism…
New Right, New Left, Old Utopia
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Rod Dreher
I’ve been thinking off and on all day about what to say about David Brooks’ provocative column today, in which he compares the Tea Party Right of today with the New Left of the 1960s. Here’s an excerpt: But the core commonality is this: Members of both movements believe in what you might call mass…
What a bad teacher can do
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Rod Dreher
We are accustomed to narratives praising good teachers and the difference they’ve made in the lives of their students. But I don’t think I’ve ever read one about what a bad teacher has wrought in a student’s life — until Emily Oren’s wrenching blog memoir of the teacher who drove her out of architecture school.…
“There’s Never Enough Morphine”
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Rod Dreher
My dad, I’m pleased to say, has quit smoking. After seeing what his daughter is going through with her lung cancer, he stopped cold turkey, after a lifetime of the habit. Talking to him on the phone driving into work this morning, I told him that I can’t see people smoking now without a chill.…
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