Category Archives: Culture

A Torah Perspective on National Borders and Illegal Immigration

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Luke Ford

By Nochum Mangel and Shmuel Klatzkin: If the heavens and earth and all of mankind are created by one G‑d, what does the Torah, G‑d’s instruction manual, tell us about One World–ism? Does it recognize national boundaries as legitimate? In … Continue reading →

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Nature & Nurture

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Luke Ford

From comments to John Derbyshire: * Statistically speaking, if I am recalling correctly, differences in our personality and behavioral traits appear to be explained roughly one half genetically (i.e., our individual DNA profiles at conception), one quarter congenitally (i.e., our … Continue reading →

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‘All Culture Is A Struggle With Oblivion’

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Luke Ford

"In an interview, Thomas Macho, the sociologist of culture, once described cultures as islands in the ocean of oblivion." (Religion and Cultural Memory by Jan Assmann, pg. 81)

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