“Post-modernists have claimed that the era of philosophy ended with Hegel and the denial of an absolutist worldview. Now, rationality has fallen from grace in a relativist culture. Reason no longer serves as the prime justifier, and wisdom is no longer sought in the field of higher education. Now, the parrotting of professor’s pet theories …
It is not true that only cold-hearted, cynical, arrogant, haughty, or brawling persons can succeed in politics. Such people are naturally attracted to politics. In the end, however, politeness and good manners weigh more. Vaclav Havel
The Catholic Church recently admonished Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party for turning the Lord’s Prayer into an ode to its late leader, Hugo Chávez. “Our Chávez who art in heaven, the earth, the sea and we delegates,” intoned a delegate at its conference last week, as she stood before a vast image of the former president. …
The British “children’s laureate”, Malorie Blackman, says she wants children to read more, but talks about how, as a young black girl, she felt “totally invisible in the world of literature”; and how, when studying history, she had wanted to learn something that “felt more relevant” than the Tudors. This is nonsense. People don’t, or …
Congratulations to the Church of England. It has just adopted legislation that will allow the appointment of women bishops next year. Better late than never.
