As Previously Seen on FVR...
Following up on previously published articles
Re: Gabe Hurrish’s series of “Reflections on International Aid and Human Development”
Micheal Gumisiriza asks a bold question: What if we stopped aid altogether?
On Gabe’s mission field of South Sudan specifically, Joseph Falzetta is ambivalent, noting the good and the bad of foreign aid.
Re: “The Danger of Intellectual Vanity”
Mani Basharzad writes about “the followers of scientism — those who hold a dogmatic belief in the validity and certainty of their theories.”
A species of eagle thought to be extinct in Mexico, it turns out, is not.
Roger Pielke sees recent ice cap data as underlining the complexity of climate change; there’s still much we don’t know.
On climate, again, Roger Pielke, again, connects intellectual vanity with climate catastrophism. Speaking of which…
Re: “The Uses of Catastrophe”
On May the Fourth (be with you), Jon Miltimore and Tyler Thurman wrote about “Star Wars and the Politics of Fear,” with a nice quote from Friedrich Hayek: “Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
Re: “Hope and Character Trump Race and Class”
A recent analysis—citing Hillbilly Elegy along the way—finds “glimmers of hope” on working-class men and marriage.
Anthony Bradley stresses the profound impact of fathers: “We tend to think of parenting in terms of love, guidance, and support. But recent research suggests that the influence of fatherhood may go even deeper—into the very wiring of a child’s stress response system.”
Finally, re: “Christians in Exile”
Chelsea Langston Bombino’s article on Fannie Lou Hamer echoes the common Fr. Neuhaus themes of civil rights and the role of religion in the public square.