The pleasures of freelancing

One job is overdue. I am considering a couple of other rush jobs: one I accepted only for the outsourcer to suddenly go mute on me, and the other is on a subject on which I am not really a specialist (medicine), but which I might have to take anyway, because the outsourcer's primary need is to get it done NOW NOW NOW!! Never a dull moment.

Is there any mileage in this?

I have a kind of intuition that one might get a lot of insight into the modern age by making a close comparative study - not only philosophical, but psychological and culture-historical too - of Rousseau and Nietzsche; beginning with their religious roots.

Another fleeting thought

France, and to a lesser extent Germany, lay claim to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment as to a kind of national treasure and heritage; and the rest of the West tends to agree. Yet those elements of the Enlightenment that had a permanent, positive and enduring impact on the West came neither from Paris nor from the university towns of Germany, but from Edinburgh (Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations), Milan (Cesare Beccaria's Crimes and Penalties) and from the fledgling, English-speaking United States of America. No work of any French or German author, not even Voltaire or Kant, compares.

What does a Catholic do...

...in a country where the Catholic Episcopate are openly on the side of the Church's enemies? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100026784/government-praises-catholic-school-for-non-judgmental-approach-to-abortion/