Good afternoon, everyone. I’ve just posted links to two new essays of mine to the Articles page.
“How Happiness Studies Lets Us Down,” which appeared yesterday in the online edition of First Things.
Fifteen Eighty Four blog of Cambridge University Press (5 February 2025]
First Things web edition (5 February 2025)
From Współczesna Problematyka Ochrony Małżeństwa i Tożsamości Osoby w Świetle Orzecznictwa Amerykańskiego i Europejskiego, redakcja naukowa Przemysław Ostojski i Mark Regnerus (Warszawa: Instytut Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości, 2024).
From Contemporary Problems of Protection of Marriage and Identity of the Person in the Light of American and European Case Law, edited by Przemysław Ostojski and Mark Regnerus (Warsaw: Institute of Justice, 2024).
Sometimes I collect and log thoughts I don’t want to discuss at full length. So you may consider today’s post a sheaf of promissory notes.
A young man in one of my classes ingenuously suggested that the educated and well-off are more virtuous than the poor. I wasn’t surprised that he held such a complacent view, but only that he so readily gave voice it. Among well-off people, this sort of thinking is no less common than it ever was, but nowadays it is impolitic to let it show.
I’ve asked before why some people don’t think about God, or even about whether He exists. Let me change the question. Supposing that He does exist (you may not accept the supposition), then why would it be wrong to ignore Him?