Book Group

Meeting Time & Dates:

• • Every 3rd Tuesday

  • 8:00 -- 10:00 pm

  • Location: rotates

Topics

Each month, someone different will be in charge of selecting a topic and suggested reading.

• • May: Cosmopolitanism (articles attached below)

  • Overview of cosmopolitanism: K.A. Appiah “Global Citizenship” and video interview (http://aje.me/zp5wLq)

    • Relevancy of topic: Washington Post article on the increasing rise of anti-immigration sentiment in Europe

  • Anti-cosmopolitan thinking: classic article by Samuel Huntington on the clash of civilizations

  • April: book: Soul Searching

  • http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Searching-Religious-Spiritual-Teenagers/dp/0195384776

  • Jan 2012: Wendell Berry

    • Summary of his ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry#Ideas

    • Essays

      • In Distrust of movements: http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com/essays/essay-in-distrust-of-movements-by-wendell-berry/

      • The Pleasures of Eating: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/pleasures-eating/

      • Why I am not going to buy a computer: http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/berrynot.html

      • Faustian economics: hell hath no limits: http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/0082022

      • Compromise, Hell!: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/147/

  • November: Occupy Wall Street

    • Mike: Occupation and realignment: http://www.salon.com/2011/10/18/occupation_and_realignment/singleton/

    • Mike: email: Subject: More on OWS from you-know-who

    • Mike: Tea partiers: The self-hating 99%: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/2011101883450141716.html

    • Ben M: Theology of OWS: http://www.jeffkeuss.com/blog/?p=1059

    • Kevin: Can the middle class be saved: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/can-the-middle-class-be-saved/8600/

    • Mike: The New Progressive Movement: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-new-progressive-movement.html

    • Ben W: email: Occupy Halloween (Ben wins the creativity award this time) :)

    • Optional:

      • Thane: Materialism and Life Satisfaction (.pdf attachment below)

      • Ben M: Wright article (.pdf attachment below)

  • June: Kevin: Is technology making us stupid?

    • Multitasking ourselves to death, from NetFuture: http://www.netfuture.org/1998/Jul3098_75.html#2d

    • Original article in The Atlantic by Nicolas Carr: Is Google making us stoopid? http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

    • Rebuttal in The Atlantic by James Cascio: Get Smarter: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/get-smarter/7548/

    • Responses with lots of interesting comments:

      • Response in the Britannica blog by Clay Shirky: http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/07/why-abundance-is-good-a-reply-to-nick-carr/

    • http://www.edge.org/discourse/carr_google.html

    • Review of Carr's new book at Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/05/09/the_shallows

  • March 14th: Mike: Labor unions, income inequality

    • Attachement below: PDF contains 3 articles

  • Feb ?: Kevin H: Pelagianism revisited

    • Pelagius entry from the Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11604a.htm

    • Attatchment below: chapter from 'Listening for the Heartbeat of God, by Phillip J. Newell'

  • Oct 11th: Ben W: Art

    • See attachment below: art readings.pdf

  • Sept 7th: Mike: Politics (continued)

  • http://hectocotylus.blogspot.com/2010/04/vanishing-liberal-by-kevin-baker.html

  • http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/423__0332-Alesina11.pdf

  • http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2010/06/pdf/voter_demographics.pdf

  • http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/12/palin_cranks_up_2012_campaign.html

    • Also, attached is a chart comparing the popular-vote performance of the Whig Party and the Republican Party in the three election cycles before their respective historic flameouts.

  • Aug 10th: Mike: Politics

  • July 13th: Geoff: Immigration

  • June 8th: Read Genesis 1-3 and continue discussion from last week

  • May 11th: Ben M. John Haught

  • April 13th: Keith: Health Care

  • Mar 9th: Geoff: selection of Hauerwas essays on war:

  • http://web.archive.org/web/20040113123619/http://www.saintnicks.com/education_detail.php?ArticleType=education&ID=305

  • http://www.harvardichthus.org/sections/features/2009/11/war-and-the-american-difference/

  • http://hopeofalltheworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-do-you-know-war-is-war.html

  • Feb 9th: Kevin: selection of essays on not voting.