February 11, 2014
The main obstacle to the flourishing of scientific inquiry in our country is our reduction of education to techno-vocationalism and the disparaging of theoretical inquiry for its own sake.
January 9, 2014
Religion, according to Tocqueville, is effective only when distanced from democratic development. It’s futile and un-Christian to think there could be a modern state that favors or fully appreciates the church.
June 12, 2013
That fatherhood is not as “biological” as motherhood might be understood as an advantage for our time, when single men should come to see it’s good for them to assume loving shared responsibility in marriage for the children of all those single moms.
November 12, 2012
Tocqueville would conclude that what’s changed the most since the America he wrote about is the breakdown of the religious-based American consensus on the limits of self-obsessive individualism. His America was all about chastity, marital fidelity, what’s best for children, and common moral duties. This consensus has broken down, and the resulting devolution of marriage into a contractual entitlement devoid of real duties or even duration is the real cause of the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage.
