My apologies again for what looks like it will be the second straight week of disappointingly light posting. (Well, it’s disappointing for me, anyway.) I’ve been hard at work putting together a draft of my Doublethink article, and there is a deadline on Friday for a departmental essay contest to which I hope to submit a chapter of my dissertation. (At this point, anything that gets me to work on that latter thing is pretty much a miracle.) So while I may have a few brief things to say between now and Friday, don’t hold your breath for anything grand.
In the meantime, though, you might check out Roger Scruton’s excellent Modern Age essay on conservative conservationism, which is now up at First Principles. It says some things pretty similar to the points I was driving at in my review essay, from a few weeks ago, on James Conaway’s Vanishing America, though I don’t share Scruton’s skepticism of the National Parks program.* Also, Matthew Crawford’s excellent essay on “neuro-talk”, from the Winter 2008 New Atlantis, is available at their shiny new website (H/T: Cheryl Miller), and Rick Saenz has written some great stuff in the past week about cows, pigs, and why Joel Salatin stopped selling eggs to Whole Foods. Finally, in case you somehow missed it, Peter Lula’s Commonweal essay from a few weeks ago on “Easter in Baghdad”, together with the Andrew Bacevich article on the Bush Doctrine and the accompanying editorial on the theology of the war on terror, will make for an hour or so of reading much better than anything I could come up with. My review of Leszek Kolakowski’s Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? will be in Commonweal’s April 25 issue, by the way …
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* Actually, let me put that differently.
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