AUGUST 2003 CULTURE ITEMS
[USA Today]
Students and teachers in all Biloxi, MS classrooms to be recorded on net-enabled video cameras.
08.16.2003 9:42 am EST
[Yahoo! News Singapore]
A confidential Vatican document written in 1962 by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani set out a policy that demanded total secrecy in cases of sex abuse by priests. Church records indicate that the document was the basis of the church's sex abuse policy, until US bishops drafted a new policy last year.
08.07.2003 8:54 am EST
[National Review]
Is the unexamined life the only one worth living? John Derbyshire in the National Review confuses innocence with ignorance and makes a plea for "carelessness and in-attention." Perhaps what he wants to say is that we spend too much time thinking about the wrong things, but what he in fact argues is that we spend too much time thinking: there are regions of life, thought and behavior that are beyond reason's scope, and ought to stay there.
08.05.2003 9:10 am EST
[Spiked Online]
Does the nostalgia rampant in 20- and 30-year-olds indicate a society that is rejecting adulthood? Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, would probably have little incentive to run away if he was living in London or New York or Tokyo today. At a time when captains of industry are enjoying outdoor adventures and zapping each other with paint balls, little boys can look forward to a life of playing. You no longer have to shut your eyes and pretend you are in Neverland - it is all around you.
08.04.2003 11:11 am EST
[GodlessGeeks.com]
Over 300 unpersuasive "proofs" of God's existence.
08.01.2003 8:54 pm EST