I’m at a loss — if the Catholic Church was behind the Industrial Revolution, did England lead the way because of what were essentially copyright violations? I’m willing to accept that Catholicism played a large part in preparing people intellectually for great achievements — repudiating the charge that it was a burden is important — but the spread of literacy and the cultural implications of memorizing psalms as Weber describes is valid enough to consider. Brooks starts to head down the road of the argument that “the Catholics really did it, not the Protestants.”
With Americans across the political spectrum increasingly skeptical of massive...Read More
On Thursday, Dan Flynn reported the news in his daily...Read More
The other week, I had the opportunity to attend a...Read More
In a 1789 letter to the British philosopher Richard Price,...Read More