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The symbol of Christianity is the Cross, and the Cross lies over the world and marks human history. The rejection by man of God makes a cleavage between the natural and the supernatural, the secular state and the Church. (essay by Martin Cyril D’Arcy)
on Wed, 10PM
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The Flight From God, & a Flight Into the Country
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Now not just certain individuals, the Swiss-German philosopher Max Picard argued, but the entire culture itself is in flight from God. It is manifested in every phase of life. But the fact that we are fleeing from God means that God is pursuing us. (essay by Michael De Sapio)
on Tue, 5PM
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The Flight From God, & a Flight Into the Country
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Now not just certain individuals, the Swiss-German philosopher Max Picard argued, but the entire culture itself is in flight from God. It is manifested in every phase of life. But the fact that we are fleeing from God means that God is pursuing us. (essay by Michael De Sapio)
on Tue, 5PM
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Chaos: The Gestating Principle of Civilization
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A certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Priestly control of arts and letters is then felt as a galling shackle or hateful barrier, and intellectual history takes on the character of a ‘conflict between science and religion.' (read the full...
on Sat, 5PM
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Reading presents thoughts as gifts, and the best books, by preventing us from passively succumbing to other people’s pictures and their self-serving agendas, cooperate in saving our souls... (click the link below to view the full essay by Eva Brann)
on Nov 7
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The default position with Shakespeare is to favor bold revisions over the poetic wisdom in the plays themselves. Why not let Shakespeare be what he is? (essay by Glenn Arbery)
on Nov 5
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It is not surprising that in the political field, the traditional form of Christianity has not accepted the logical conclusions of that democracy which asserts that man can do what he likes, since there is no power greater than man. In that sense, Catholicism has never been democratic in spirit....
on Nov 2
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Crimes Against the Humanities: The Tragedy of Modernity
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A failure to appreciate the humanities must inevitably lead to the dehumanizing of culture and a disastrous loss of the ability to see ourselves truthfully and objectively. (essay by Joseph Pearce)
on Oct 31
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The upcoming presidential election will determine the next leader of the nation and representative of America to the world. Election Day offers the prospect for a new voice and a new option. The American Solidarity Party fits that description. Its principles and public policy are in quest for...
on Oct 26
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If we really think of God as a Who and not a What—in other words, if we think of him as a Someone capable of speech, then there is no “security” against revelation. And man’s only meaningful response to revelation is faith! (essay by Josef Pieper)
on Oct 24
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Divine Providence Works Through You
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If we are faithful to God in small things, and offer our lives and all our actions more and more to the service of his divine will, he can and will accomplish untold good through our lives. (essay by Br. John Henry Peters)
on Oct 22
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By linking it to the great moral issue of slavery, perhaps more people will find their way to the position that abortion too should be put on the road to ultimate extinction. If so, it’s possible that subsequent generations of Americans will come to regard our Stephen Douglas-popular sovereignty...
on Oct 18
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Literature is important because it takes us beyond the facts to the truth. It shows us who we are as human beings and as human persons. (essay by Joseph Pearce)
on Oct 18
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Jonathan Edwards: Founding Father of American Political Thought
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Jonathan Edwards helped to invent a new America, committed to a national covenant and an unprecedented spiritual egalitarianism... (essay by Gordon Arnold)
on Oct 16
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The Tyranny of the Present Moment
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For the Progressives, checks and balances were merely a hindrance to efficient government. How could it be wrong to act in accordance with the spirit of history? As “experts” replaced statesman, the whole idea of “the consent of the governed” became less important, even a stumbling block for the...
on Oct 9
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The "Anonymous Society" vs. "The Great Workbench"
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The “anonymous societies”—the corporations—can never deliver what they promise; they can never bring us limited government, free markets, or private property. But most especially, they cannot overcome the division between capital and labor; that can come only by sharing in ownership, and by...
on Oct 5
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Each of us belongs to two States—a terrestrial State whose end is the common temporal good, and the universal State of the Church whose end is eternal life. (essay by Jacques Maritain)
on Oct 4
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Harry Jaffa and the Demise of the Old Republic
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Harry Jaffa’s constitutional history of America’s late-eighteenth-century is not credible nor, in keeping with many of his own pronouncements, is it conservative. (essay by Barry Shain)
on Oct 2
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The Human Being: The User Manual
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I don’t know about you, but I wish I had been born with the user manual for the human being or at least received instruction in school about the basic equipment every human being possesses. (essay by George Stanciu)
on Sep 28
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Plato wrote his Allegory of the Cave about the journey from ignorance to true philosophy, but I think his allegory fits another journey even better: the journey of the Christian life. (essay by Br. Andrew Lyons)
on Sep 26
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Might We Be Witness to a Political Pole Reversal?
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We have the makings of one, and it explains a lot of what’s going on. It is not yet complete. (essay by Chuck Chalberg)
on Sep 25
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Unlike reality—which is infinitely and ultimately unknowable—Marxism as ideology pretends to understand the world, but, in reality, it offers only the merest shadow of true complexities. (essay by Bradley Birzer)
on Sep 22
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A Popular Defense of Our Undemocratic Constitution
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If we consider the Founders’ arguments for the Constitution, we find not only that they intended it to be undemocratic, but that they would defend even its most undemocratic elements on “popular” grounds. What might appear to the partisans of democracy today as outdated roadblocks to efficient...
on Sep 20
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The Spirit of American Constitutionalism
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The Constitution described by John Dickinson in his "Letters of Fabius" is a model of prudence and moderation, based not primarily on theoretical arguments, but on experience and an extensive knowledge of history. (essay by Gregory S. Ahern)
on Sep 18
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"Fauxtastrophes" and the Power of Bureaucracy
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Scientism’s prophets began creating “fauxtastrophes,” cosmic pseudo-calamities that would satisfy our irrepressible hunger for transcendence—the natural expectation of divine retribution—and affirm our dependence on their priestly caste. (essay by Joseph Woodard)
on Sep 18
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"Othello" and the Dynamics of Deceit
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The same dynamic on display in Shakespeare's "Othello" plays out within the human heart. There is an inner Iago who lies to us, and we want to believe that liar and believe that he is honest and loves us. Do we swallow his lies, or challenge his deception with the astringent face-splash of...
on Sep 14
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Shakespeare and Classical Education
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Those who fail to share my profound admiration for William Shakespeare will no doubt query my apparent obsession with one author to the exclusion of all others, as I propose an ideal classical curriculum for the freshman and sophomore years of high school. (essay by Joseph Pearce)
on Sep 13
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Three Things That Make This Election Cycle Surreal
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Materialist expectations will always frustrate souls made for a spiritual end in God. Any restoration of order can only be built upon the moral framework of traditional values that the radical left looks upon with white-hot hatred. It rests upon the planks of the platform the Republican Party...
on Sep 11
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Clyde Wilson’s “Jeffersonian Conservative Tradition” Revisited
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For Clyde Wilson, the Jeffersonian conservative tradition was never a stale embrace of the past for its own sake. It conserves only to produce something better. (essay by Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts)
on Sep 8
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How Christianity Civilized Mankind
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As we dispense with religious institutions, beliefs, and practices—as we dispense with God Himself in the ridiculous belief that we are enough on our own—we leave ourselves open to barbarism within and a more overt barbarism from without. (essay by Bruce Frohnen)
on Sep 5
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The American and French Revolutions Compared
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Americans turned to the concrete lessons of history and experience to guide them in securing their liberty. The French, on the other hand, deified Reason above not only experience, but also above religion and divine revelation. (essay by Sean Busick)
on Sep 1
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Gather Round the Hearth to Enjoy Things
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How do we redeem the time? We start by "brightening the corner where we are," by improving ourselves, by helping our neighbors, by loving our families, by setting high standards for our students, and by exercising the inherited liberty bequeathed to us from the founders, responsibly, yet...
on Aug 28
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Why Liberal Education in a Capitalist Society?
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Both free thinking and innovation depend on having the imagination to see alternate ways of being, to envision worlds that we do not yet see before us, to reconsider what is there, and to conceive what could be there in its place. (essay by Christopher Nelson)
on May 21
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Josef Pieper: The Virtues and Vices of Courage
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The great moralists tell us that a person’s strength is often the source of his greatest weakness, whether it is business acumen, artistic creativity, or physical excellence. Any of these things can be exercised too much or in the wrong way. The same is true of courage. (essay by Matthew Anger)
on May 13
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We see the mystery of our salvation worked out in the hands of Christ the Carpenter. We see in his craft the pattern of what it means to follow Christ. (essay by Br. Augustine Buckner)
on May 10
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Tradition and the Truth that Anchors Us
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The civilization birthed by Israel, Greece, and Rome is the source of culture and individual traditions that can nourish us—traditions that can give us purpose, order, and beauty and rescue us from despair, boredom, and banality. Follow it and live by it, even if others scorn and abandon it....
on May 1
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What makes freedom possible is beyond all knowing, but what makes the moral law possible is freedom itself. The fact that we have a faculty of freedom is the critical ground of the possibility of morality... (click the link below to view the full essay by Eva Brann)
on Apr 25
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We have no way of knowing whether the twenty-first-century collapse is yet another momentary stumble or finally the Dark Age. Like good Carolingians, however, we keep looking backwards for our recovery, trying to rebuild what we once had. (essay by Joseph Woodard)
on Apr 23
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The extreme improbability of the “very perfectly precise” conditions needed for a sustainable universe capable of sustaining life within it was calculated by Oxford mathematician-physicist Roger Penrose in 1989. The number that Penrose calculated with respect to the conditions necessary for...
on Apr 16
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Rediscovering the True, Good, & Beautiful
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The everyday conversation of a free society depends on trust in our commonsense experience of reality. Contemporary errors about the True, Good, and Beautiful are not simply mistaken explanations. They are lies, distorting and misrepresenting the experiences themselves, and cannot explain our...
on Apr 15
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There was a time when it was thought that the choice was between reason and religion, between the rational and the irrational, between science and superstition. Such a perception was always irrational itself because it presumed that physics explained or explained away metaphysics. (essay by...
on Apr 10
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Christless Classical Curricula
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If faith cannot be included within classical charter schools because of secularist State requirements, then what is the purpose of such education? (essay by Helen Freeh)
on Apr 4
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The Old Despotism & the New Anarchy
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In recent years, academics, journalists, and politicians have sounded alarms to signal mounting threats to democracy. I take such warnings seriously, and as a historian I am left to contemplate the nature, extent, and significance of the peril we face using the only guide that we have: the past....
on Mar 27
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Liberal Education: Piercing the Dome
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Three proposed ends of liberal education — career, democracy, and a free mind — do not pierce the dome of the bourgeois workaday world. Let us begin anew with a question: “How can liberal education pierce the dome that encloses the bourgeois workaday world?" (essay by George Stanciu)
on Mar 26
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Christopher Dawson's "Beyond Politics"
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“Old books” speak to the times, often in more profound ways than “new books.” Christopher Dawson's "Beyond Politics" is just such a book. It diagnosed in 1939 the cultural situation in which the book appeared, and its diagnosis is apropos to the cultural situation today. (essay by Daniel J. Sundahl)
on Mar 21
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Buying Liberty or Empire? The Problem of the Louisiana Purchase
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The Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the United States in one fell swoop, may sound of little relevance to ordered liberty today. But as we face a national government of ever-increasing power and hostility toward the institutions, beliefs, and practices undergirding ordered liberty...
on Mar 20
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Liberals and the Libel of “Christian Nationalism”
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Christ gave His disciples the Divine Commission to go and teach all nations, baptizing them. Christians are called to change society—all society, every society. They pursue this goal with charity and zeal, respecting the free will of individuals. Wherever Christianity has gone, its charity has...
on Mar 20
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Beauty, Nature, & the Quest for Meaning in Sigrid Undset’s "The Wild Orchid"
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Sigrid Undset understood how experiences of joy alongside unfulfilled longings can break the spell of modernity and open a window into the spiritual life. "The Wild Orchid" explores the possibility of spiritual awakening in society that has grown bored with the Christian faith and is seeking new...
on Mar 9
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Hannah Coulter & The Bourgeois Family
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The rise of techno-capitalism has signaled the triumph of the bourgeois family & the demise of the traditional family.
on Mar 7
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The Weakness of Caesar & the Power of the Cross
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From its birth, the Church worked to overthrow tyrannies and establish societies of justice. But it did this in a manner unlike any other revolutionary movement. Christianity has always redeemed politics by surpassing it, fulfilling it beyond itself. It defeats violence through peace and not...
on Mar 6