Intellectual Archive
How Useful Is the “Atheist” Label?
October 19, 2007 · Category: Intellectual, Personal
Atlasphere columnist Allison Taylor, who lately has become one of my favorite bloggers, has a new thought-provoking post up.
She begins:
Sam Harris recently gave a lecture at an “atheist” conference where he shocked his ...
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Neoconservativism in Historical Context
October 6, 2007 · Category: Intellectual, Politics
Joshua Muravchik's "The Past, Present, and Future of Neoconservatism" in Commentary Magazine is one of the most interesting political essays I've read in months.
Did you know that the term "neoconservative" originally described someone who agreed ...
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Love Taunts My Metaphysical Conservatism
October 6, 2007 · Category: Intellectual, Personal
Faustin wrote this in the comments to a friends-only post, but it's just too good not to haul up into the sunlight:
But the feeling of being in love includes the feeling of inescapable compulsion, that ...
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Does Suffering Build Character?
This somewhat-throwaway comment, from a post by Virginia Postrel, caught my eye:
Contrary to what you may have heard, the only sort of character suffering builds is the ability to suffer -- a useful ability in ...
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Quotes There Should Be
June 9, 2007 · Category: Intellectual
A friend of mine occasionally gives himself, as an intellectual exercise, the task of writing a passage coming from a voice that is not his own.
"The whole idea of my 'quotes there should be' exercises," ...
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Will Our Love Last?
I just posted this over at Desiree's place, in response to her request for feedback on the book Will Our Love Last? by Sam R. Hamburg.
I've not read Will Our Love Last? but the general ...
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wikiHow... How Amazing
May 28, 2007 · Category: Intellectual, Reviews
I stumbled across a stray wikiHow article a few minutes ago on Google's redesigned homepage, and was pleasantly blown away the the quality of some of their articles.
I expected something kind of dry and uninspired ...
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Integral Critique of The Secret
April 5, 2007 · Category: Integral, Intellectual
Writing for KenWilber.com, Stuart Davis posts an interesting critique of The Secret, called The Secret: The Spirituality of Narcissism.
Kathy and I have found aspects of The Secret (both the book and the movie) to be ...
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America Ain’t Got No Problems Radical Muslims Can Solve
November 11, 2006 · Category: Intellectual, Politics
Stephen Browne:
During the Second World War, boxer Joe Louis, the "Brown Bomber" served in the US Army as a spokesman, or "propagandist" we'd say today.
Contrary to popular belief today, the 60s generation did not discover ...
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What Has Happened to Mutual Respect?
November 4, 2006 · Category: Intellectual, Politics
I couldn't agree more with Glenn Reynolds:
WOODY ALLEN AND BILLY GRAHAM: The humor, and mutual respect despite obvious disagreement, shown in these clips is the kind of thing we don't see enough of today. And ...
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