Catch-Up

As I dig out, blogging will regain its usual pace. But I've still got to unpack -- so read these meanwhile:

Michael and myself and Caleb Stegall consider what David Brooks calls the Rise of the Neural Buddhists;

I think Burma will keep suffering [DTO], because sometimes people still go to church after they lose faith, especially in the face of complex social pressures;

and Ramesh Ponnuru and I [DTO] tackle the possibility of moral opprobrium without hypocritical in-group self-valorization.