Catholicism in The United States: Between liberalism and conservatism

"Harvey Mansfield has always taken the long view. As he sees it, the way to approach an American topic is to ask first what the Founding Fathers said about it, then see what Tocqueville added. In the same way, his approach to any European issue starts out with a word from Plato and Aristotle, then moves along through Augustine and Aquinas to the opinions of Machiavelli and Edmund Burke. In this sense he’s just like the Catholic Church, which has always specialized in taking the long view, while trying to avoid being paralyzed by the weight of tradition. Taking the long view means being aware of oneself as part of an extended historical process, of being indebted to the insights of earlier generations, without being blind to those generations’ limitations. It usually guards against provincialism of time and place steers us away from utopianism, while helping us to see sensible ways forward."(...

Catholic converts : British and American intellectuals turn to Rome/ Allitt

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A climate of crisis: America in the age of environmentalism

This book shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fear-mongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts. The writer shows us, collective anxiety about widespread environmental danger began with the atomic bomb, when the apocalyptic possibilities of human technology became terrifyingly real. Then, as the urbanization and industrialization of the postwar years transformed the American landscape, more research and better tools for measurement began to reveal the environmental consequences of economic success

William F. Buckley and American Conservatism: Two Lectures

This panel presentation from the Symposium on James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., and the American Dream discusses William F. Buckley and the notion of American conservatism. Dr. Nicholas Buccola (associate professor of political science at Linfield College) serves as chair for the panel. Dr. Patrick Allitt (Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University) presents William Buckley and the Decline of American Conservative Racism: 1955-95, while author William Hogeland presents On the Beaches, in the Hills, in the Mountains: William Buckley\u27s Legacy in the Politics of Denial

The association between social media use and mental health symptoms in middle adolescence: A counterfactual analysis

The current study will employ propensity score analysis, a process that simulates a case-control study by creating matched groups that differ in group status (e.g., spending a lot of time or frequently using social media screen) but that are statistically equivalent on their estimated tendency to have high levels of screen time. We will use data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which is a large, nationally representative sample of a cohort of youth in the United Kingdom. The effect of frenquency of social media screen use at age 11 on adolescents’ mental health symptoms (including emotional symptoms, self-harm) at age 14 will be examined. And, the effect of time spent on social media websites/apps at age 14 on adolescents’ mental health symptoms (including emotional symptoms, self-harm, and suicide attempts) at age 17 will be examined