Trouble at the lab

At The Economist, a briefing asserts "Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not".

Plato’s Apology: In Defense of Virtue in the Face of Death

From the Institute of Catholic Culture, Prof. John Cuddeback's presentation on "Plato’s Apology: In Defense of Virtue in the Face of Death", November 17, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. EST, and again at the same time on November 24, 2013.

Get Happy!!

Jackson Lears, at The Nation, reviews several recent books on how to achieve happiness.

"The worldview of the happiness manuals, like that in other self-help literature, epitomizes 'the triumph of the therapeutic' described some decades ago by the sociologist Philip Rieff: the creation of a world where all overarching structures of meaning have collapsed, and there is 'nothing at stake beyond a manipulatable sense of well-being.'"