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Jan 1, 2003

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Editorial: On Craft

To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. —John MiltonWith Comment, we try and connect three things in every issue (although not necessarily all three at the same time in every single piece we publish): (1) the biblical worldview, (2)...

Jan 1, 2003

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On Craft (2)

At Comment, we are convinced that work (or cultivation or craft or skill or "formative power") is essential to all of human life and basic to all spheres of human action other than marriage, family, and friendship. So we want to lean our journal increasingly toward...

Sep 1, 2002

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Editorial: Public Intellectual Journalism

You were marginal in terms of the main culture, but you felt a tougher intellectual life. The talk! The talk was exciting."—William Phillips Were I the candle-lighting kind, I would light a candle for William Phillips (d. September 13, 2002), founder and editor of...

Sep 1, 2002

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A Discussion of “Beyond Unions?”

In the previous issue of Comment, Ray Pennings argued thatIf [unions] intransigently resist the change and try to hold onto the old order, the system will implode. They will be replaced by the emerging worker representative organizations. If, on the other hand, they...

Sep 1, 2002

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Leadership and the Problem of Identity

. . . there is surely no need to get so wrought up about trifles like this. Yourself you have never been at all; Then what does it matter, your dying right out?Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem, Peer Gynt , focuses largely on the concept of self and identity. The main...

Sep 1, 2002

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Arts and Letters Daily is Dead

The much loved Arts & Letters Daily is dead and gone. Tran Huu Dung and Denis Dutton, the editors, are not giving up, though. They have a new site, Philosophy & Literature, doing pretty much the same job.If I were a cat, Arts & Letters Daily would have...

Sep 1, 2002

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On Craft

With Comment, we try and connect three things in every issue (although not necessarily all three at the same time in every single piece we publish): (1) the Christian worldview, (2) everyday-work-as-cultural-engagement, and (3) economic life.We are convinced that work...

Sep 1, 2002

Wilhelm Roepke and the Original “Third Way”

Austrian economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises are often credited as the spiritual godfathers of the Reagan-Thatcher revolution and the subsequent revival of free market economics. Their German-Swiss contemporary, Wilhelm Roepke, is far less known today. Yet...

Jun 1, 2002

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Five Half-Truths

Henry Mintzberg—McGill business professor, management thinking maverick, and author most recently of Why I Hate Flying (Texere, 2001)—and two collaborators, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu, recently published a Memo to CEOs detailing "Five half-truths of business": We're...