This blogpost has some addenda — pieces by Lyman Stone and Cameron Hilditch — to my earlier one, “What Does God Think of Us Americans?” I begin with an interesting paper in April 2020 by Stone here. Next, Hilditch, in National Review Online on December 13, 2020, cites and discusses Stone here. Stone then had … [Read more…]
Recently I was sitting at a table in the food court of our local shopping mall. As I looked over the court and watched the mall’s denizens, I wondered what America’s Founders would have thought of it all. Of course, when you put the question that way, you think first of what they would think … [Read more…]
There’s a new book out, A Summer with Pascal, by Antoine Compagnon. I have not read it, but I did read a review of it in the Wall Street Journal last week (July 27-28, 2024, at page C12), and it looks interesting. I feel I should note the book’s publication on this blogsite — after … [Read more…]