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<!--Generated by Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.594-SNAPSHOT-1 (http://www.squarespace.com) on Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:08:38 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Paper Clippings</title><subtitle>Paper Clippings</subtitle><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/atom.xml"/><updated>2021-05-01T16:12:04Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.594-SNAPSHOT-1 (http://www.squarespace.com)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>GDP Fetish</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/8/30/gdp-fetish.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/8/30/gdp-fetish.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2020-08-31T03:27:09Z</published><updated>2020-08-31T03:27:09Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/opinion/us-gdp-coronavirus.html">Oren Cass</a> on the difference between high  material living standards and a good life.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Falling Apart</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/8/30/falling-apart.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/8/30/falling-apart.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2020-08-31T03:25:19Z</published><updated>2020-08-31T03:25:19Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/08/28/the-social-fabric-of-the-u-s-is-fraying-severely-if-not-unravelling/">Glen Greenwald</a> on the great American mental health crisis.]]></content></entry><entry><title>New Thinkers</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/8/24/new-thinkers.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/8/24/new-thinkers.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2020-08-25T02:57:17Z</published><updated>2020-08-25T02:57:17Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/opinion/sunday/republican-party-trump-2020.html">David Brooks</a> on some intellectual ferment on the right.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Weavers</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/1/31/weavers.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/1/31/weavers.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2020-01-31T18:21:35Z</published><updated>2020-01-31T18:21:35Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/opinion/us-politics.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage">David Brooks</a> on the mendacity of unrestrained individualism.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Being someone</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/1/10/being-someone.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2020/1/10/being-someone.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2020-01-11T00:43:05Z</published><updated>2020-01-11T00:43:05Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/02/identity-as-ideology">Identity politics</a> as cover for an existential void.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Void</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/12/10/void.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/12/10/void.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2019-12-11T04:24:38Z</published><updated>2019-12-11T04:24:38Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[One more <a href="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-war/">analysis of decline</a> but thought provoking.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Hardwired</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/11/4/hardwired.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/11/4/hardwired.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2019-11-05T04:36:57Z</published><updated>2019-11-05T04:36:57Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/11/defending-the-religious-sense">John Waters</a> on the religious sense.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Ghosts</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/10/9/ghosts.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/10/9/ghosts.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2019-10-09T22:15:45Z</published><updated>2019-10-09T22:15:45Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/10/57542/">Margaret Harper McCarthy</a> on an upcoming Supreme Court decision.]]></content></entry><entry><title>"Not a healthy thing to do"</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/9/27/not-a-healthy-thing-to-do.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/9/27/not-a-healthy-thing-to-do.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2019-09-28T03:49:47Z</published><updated>2019-09-28T03:49:47Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/the-desperate-plight-behind-darkness-at-noon">Arthur Koestler's</a> experience illustrates well the nature of ideology.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Long term thinking</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/9/2/long-term-thinking.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2019/9/2/long-term-thinking.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2019-09-02T13:57:18Z</published><updated>2019-09-02T13:57:18Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[A great interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/business/paul-polman-unilever-corner-office.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">Paul Polman</a>.]]></content></entry></feed>