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THE END OF SPAIN

9/13/2023

Learning from Shakespearean Women

The Fracturing of Spanish Politics
by henry t. edmondson iii
As moderate parties struggle to form coalitions, extremists on both right and left are able to exert more influence.
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Tocqueville understood how constitutional review, without meaningful checks, could enable judicial despotism.
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James Burnham Explained Our Predicament in Three Books
By Francis P. Sempa, The American Spectator: “Burnham foresaw the rise of progressive elites who would guide America to its inevitable decline.”

Bleak House or Great Expectations?

Classical, New, or Conservative Liberalism?

Enduring Memories of the American Revolution

A German Reflection on the American Revolution

LAW & LIBERTY CLASSICS

LAW & LIBERTY ESSAYS

WHY CATHOLICISM STILL MATTERS

9/10/2023

Capturing “Emma”

Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance”: A Jewel of Republican Rhetoric

St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More, & the Tudor Terror

How Modernity Diminishes the Human Person

Sir Alec Guinness: A Star Beyond Star Wars

The Age of Shakespeare

Pondering the Permanent Things

Burke on the Inhumanity of the French Revolution

The Light of Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Dark Victorian World

Ecology in Light of Integral Human Development

Richard Weaver, the Gospel, & the Restoration of Culture

Modernity: A Rebellion Against God

Dostoevsky the Prophet

The Sociological Roots of Robert Nisbet’s Conservatism

“Besieged”: The Unwavering Church

“Besieged”: Incarnational History

Immediacy: The Ways of Humanity

Poland: Europe’s Heroic Heart

Romano Guardini & “The End of the Modern World”

Augustine’s “City of God”: The First Culture War

St. Augustine, Modernity, & the Recovery of True Education

Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?

How God Used Poland to Save the World From Darkness

Tolkien and Theology
Why Work Matters
The Tragedy of Despair
Tolkien’s “The Children of Húrin”

Bad Ideas Have Bad Consequences

The Faith of Men of Letters

The Purpose of Peace: Maritain, Augustine & the Battle of Vienna

The Crisis of the Humanities & Prospects for Revival

HOW THE CHRISTIAN HUMANIST WORKS

8/7/2023

Hans Urs von Balthasar: A Primer

What Is Liberalism?

A Meditation on the Mind & Task of the Christian Humanist

Learning From Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Commencement Address

Dostoevsky the Prophet
The End of the Modern World

Careers Open to Talent

Bench Pressing Tolstoy
After Nihilism?

The Empire was not fundamentally moral or emancipatory. That doesn't mean no good came from it.
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The most important things we can do to combat loneliness start at home, not in the legislature.
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Antidote to the American Dream: Cardinal Mindszenty’s Memoirs

Bad Ideas Have Bad Consequences

Learning From Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Commencement Address

On August 12th, Henry Olsen celebrates ten years at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Read more about Henry's accomplishments during his time at EPPC is available on our website:
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The Truth is Still Splendid: Pope St. John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor at 30

How Colonial Empires Approached the South China Sea

AMERICA'S FOUNDING ARTISTIC SCHOOL: THE HUDSON

6/9/2023

The State of the West

Self-described liberals continue to join the ranks of the reality-mugged.
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The Birthplace of the American Artistic Imagination
By Michael De Sapio on Jun 06, 2023 03:39 pm
At a time when intellectual Europeans scoffed at the very possibility of America producing art or beauty, the Hudson School created an outpouring of beauty worthy of any country. It was an aesthetic uniquely American, based on hope in a bountiful land blessed by Providence but also aware that our world below is dark without ...
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There is a paleoconservative impulse to reject the conservatism of Buckley or Kirk in favor of class warfare, racial grievance, and power politics.
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For Adam Smith, the desire to persuade was a powerful human motivation underlying his theories of rhetoric, moral philosophy, economics, and jurisprudence.
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Sir Alec Guinness: A Star Beyond Star Wars
How Modernity Diminishes the Human Person
St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More, & the Tudor Terror

The Horror of Being Christian in Muslim Pakistan: Just One Month

The Myth of End of Oil and Regime Change by Amir Taheri

Capitalism Produces Socialism

Capturing Emma

Literature & the Foundations of the West

The Forgotten Element of Strategy

As a Matter of Fact: The National Charter School Study III 2023

The Folly of India’s Neutrality

Unpredictable ChinaA new book argues that the West should be ready for any eventuality from Xi Jinping.
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Rupnik Affair exposes leadership crisis in Jesuits, Roman Curia
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 18, 2023 10:21 pm
The disgraced celebrity artist-priest, Fr. Marko Rupnik, requested release from the Jesuit order several months before the Society of Jesus dismissed him. The claim came in an Italian-language statement released Saturday over the signature of [...]
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From Plutarch to Kissinger, we continue to learn from studying the lives of great statesmen.
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Emerson, Thoreau, and James coped with their grief in different ways. But they were all parallel paths in the same direction.
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Market expansion was clearly good for European states, but Smith recognized that asymmetries of power bred injustices in the world beyond.
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The China Scare

The seven crises of globalization studied by Harold James demonstrate that they were shaped by a heady mix of events, reactions, ideas, and choices.
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WHY GEORGE WEIGEL STILL MATTERS & OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS ON ISLAMIC POLITICAL ECONOMY, HISTORY

6/2/2023

The Most Interesting (Business) Man in the World

Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness”: A Story for the Ages
By Chuck Chalberg on Jun 01, 2023 04:24 pm
"Witness" is a brief against the “dying civilization” that was the United States of the Jazz Age. The America of F. Scott Fitzgerald, flappers, and general frivolity was dying? The young Whittaker Chambers vaguely thought so at the time. The mature Chambers of "Witness" was convinced of that. Whittaker Chambers “Man without mysticism ...
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The central Mystery of the Faith, the Source of Reality
Blessed Henri De Lubac?
A Somber Anniversary
Parting Reflections
The Catholic Crisis Over “Us”

The Jihad on Christians in Mozambique

Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2023
https://www.meforum.org/64213/review-the-critical-quran

Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2023
https://www.meforum.org/64215/review-defenders-of-the-west

Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2023
https://www.meforum.org/64218/review-the-massacre-that-never-was

Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2023
https://www.meforum.org/64221/review-political-economy-of-reforms-in-egypt

Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2023
https://www.meforum.org/64222/review-when-parliaments-ruled-the-middle-east

What Washington Gets Wrong About Deterrence

Syria and Captagon: An Assessment by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Middle East Forum
May 25, 2023 (view PDF)
https://www.meforum.org/64442/syria-and-captagon-an-assessment

Tempting Turmoil in Sudan: How Chadian Rebels in Sudan’s Conflict Would Further Regional Instability,

Tensions within American Catholicism today reflect a long-running debate between Americanists and separationists.
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Xi Doubles Down on Ideological Indoctrination at the Expense of China’s Economic Recovery

Militias are a symptom, not a cure

Solzhenitsyn, Russell Kirk, & the Moral Imagination

France’s Empowered Executive

THE SPIRITUAL IS CULTURAL

4/17/2023

Whose Empiricism? What Kind of Rationality?

On the Spiritual and the Cultural Life

My Favorite Protest Music

A Republic If You Can Keep It: Religion, Civil Society, & America’s Founding
By Michael Weiner on Apr 16, 2023 03:00 pm
Though civil libertarians rightly point out the dangers of an unchecked government, they blissfully ignore the dangers of an unchecked, unrestrained populace. It is thus worthwhile to return to the founders and examine what role they desired religion and morality to play in their new Republic. The story goes that as Benjamin Franklin departed from ...
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Orestes Brownson’s New England & the Unwritten Constitution
By Michael J. Connolly on Apr 16, 2023 04:00 pm
Orestes Brownson so esteemed New England people, customs, and institutions that they dominated his writings and fit at the heart of his political ideas. The danger of majoritarian tyranny hangs over republics. The dilemma of constituting a virtuous republic while also restricting interests, sects, and factions’ use of unchecked political power possessed eighteenth century American ...
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Classical, New, or Conservative Liberalism?
Before rebooting America’s system of natural liberty, we first need to understand what liberalism is.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series is the best introduction for a child to virtues indispensable to liberty.
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The Creation of Narnia

WHAT CASUAL DRESS REVEALS

4/14/2023

Medieval Monasticism’s Timeless Lessons on Concentration
Jamie Kreiner presents a revelatory account of Christian monks' battle with distraction and how their victories can inform us today.
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THE ARTIST, NATURE VS. CULTURE

The Fast Casual SocietyOur abandonment of standards of dress means the loss of expressive potential and our sense of occasion.
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Substantially Obligated
A New York State court ruling vindicates the principle of parental authority in education.
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Passing the Baton
The handoff from Bush to Obama gives us a glimpse into post-9/11 foreign policy and the requirements for an orderly transfer of power.
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Shakespeare and the Western Tradition of Liberty
Shakespeare deserves critics like Young and Ranasinghe who take him seriously and appreciate his work.
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Enduring Memories of the American Revolution
The Canary in the Fed’s Coal Mine

The Feminine Mystique, sixty years on
By Andrew Petiprin on Apr 12, 2023 05:43 pm
In 1963, Betty Friedan published her influential book The Feminine Mystique, inventing a term to describe the languor born of unfulfilled desires among American women, whose primary duties consisted in keeping their homes and raising [...]
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“The Truth of the Resurrection” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Visiting El Santuario de Chimayó, the most popular pilgrimage site in America

BENEDICT XVI INSTITUTE, DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

On the Spiritual and the Cultural Life
By Michael De Sapio on Apr 15, 2023 12:10 pm
The spiritual life (including the prayer and rites of religion) and the cultural life (including the artistic and intellectual cultivation of the human person in its countless forms) together ensure that life is more than a blind cycle, a march leading nowhere. They reveal the sense of our pilgrimage and light a path to our ...
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Resurrection in Narnia

'Remove Your Church': The Persecution of Christians, March 2023 by Raymond Ibrahim

JOHN WICK & AMERICA'S LOVE AFFAIR FOR PLAYBOY LIFESTYLE

4/3/2023

Henri de Lubac continues to impact the Church, says award-winning theologian
By Gilles Donada

“How did Dostoevsky know?” by Gary Saul Morson (May 1999). On totalitarianism, evil & intellectuals.

The Fierce Reality of Beauty

A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago.
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John Wick is an image of rugged American individualism, from his Mustang and gun to his silent demeanor.
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Why Babies Cry

Trump’s China Trade Failures

The Fierce Reality of Beauty
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Ideology and the Ultimate Evil

The Harrowing of Hell
The Brilliant Darkness of a Friday Afternoon
Jane Austen and the Tudor Terror

10 YEARS OF POPE FRANCIS, THE VERDICT?

3/17/2023

George Weigel writes in his syndicated column about the somber mood in the Vatican on the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis' election.

Madison’s “Extended Republic” and the Culture Wars
The Victorian Jacobites
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln & the American Struggle

With employment demands, assessment requirements, and skill training gone taken over by AI, what will be left for the university to do?
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Israel tends to make American headlines only for violence and geopolitics. But there's much more to the Jewish nation.
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A German Reflection on the American Revolution

Educating the Moral Imagination: The Truth of Beauty

Breaking the Spell of Marxism

Beware Health Totalitarianism

Medical students, like all humans, are meaning-seeking creatures. But you wouldn't know that from medical education.
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History & the New Humanism

A Theology of Gift: The Divine Benefactor & Universal Kinship By Stratford Caldecott

The Revolution Is Upon Us - Crisis Magazine

THE END OF MODERNITY; MEDICINE & IDEOLOGY; WHEN RATZINGER AND HAYEK MET

3/3/2023

The End of Modernity

Diagnosing Ideological Medicine
The ideological naïveté that we sometimes see in medicine is a symptom of a deeper problem with how we educate medical students.
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Zealous ideologues can be dangerous in many ways, but they are specially unsuited to practice medicine.
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When Ratzinger and Hayek Met
The two great minds once conversed on the role of public intellectuals in democratic societies.
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Realism on China

Unless government is properly constrained, secularism can morph into its own kind of twisted religion.
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Understanding the narratives of political economy can improve communication, and help us to appreciate subtle truths about our political moment.
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Political philosopher David Walsh highlights the givenness of the person in our hypercritical age.
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Catholic priests are being imprisoned and exiled for refusing to be silent about the abuses of the Ortega regime.
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TOCQUEVILLE'S MAN IN RUSSIA

2/22/2023

Astolphe de Custine undertook a Tocquevillian tour of Russia. But he was repelled by its regime.
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John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer capture the intellectual undercurrent of the Revolution.
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The End of Modernity
By Thaddeus Kozinski on Feb 23, 2023 03:00 pm
Modernity, by God’s grace, may be the site of a new synthesis, the transcending of stale categories of thought and practice, in which a new Christendom can emerge, one in which the reign of God in His glory and love emerges side-by-side with the full dignity and flourishing of man. The Immanent Frame and Great ...
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A professional education requires an understanding of the human condition that only humane study can provide.
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An ancient inscription gives us a peek into the rise and reign of a Bronze Age king, and a sense of the thin line between order and chaos.
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Turkey: Islamist Sex with Children Is Fine; Condemning It Is an Offense by Burak Bekdil •

Earthquake Unveils Turkey's Many Ugly Faces by Burak Bekdil

PAUL JOHNSON, A CRITICAL CATHOLIC

2/15/2023

THE TROUBLES

Paul Johnson's turn to history from journalism ought to earn him a lasting place in our memory as a great defender of ordered liberty.
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CITY JOURNAL OBITUARY

THE NEW CRITERION, REVIEW OF WORK

UK GUARDIAN

PROFILE, UK GUARDIAN

UK THE SPECTATOR

PAUL JOHNSON ARCHIVES.ORG

Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent represent a humane conservatism that demonstrates to us the importance of Western civilization.
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If we Americans can claim to possess a tragic consciousness, it owes more to Shakespeare than to Aristotle.
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The Price of Freedom
Kori Schake | Engelsberg Ideas
The international order that the US and its allies constructed from the ashes of World War II is under strain. The two main challenges to the order are America’s continued ability to uphold it and China’s rise. However, the order is much more durable than the frenzy of concern suggests.
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Who Put the West in Western Civilization?

Did Fulton Sheen Prophesy About These Times?

Perhaps no novel explores the personhood of woman better than Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
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Marco Magnani paints a future of exciting possibilities and daunting challenges.
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Joseph Butler & the Unity of Faith and Nature

The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

A Cardinal Misunderstanding of the Hierarchy of Truths

Benedict XVI describes ‘Protestantization’ of the Eucharist in posthumous publication

Dogfight Football: Germany and the Art of Strategy

The American founders learned from Montesquieu to eschew universalist ideology but defend freedom in their particular time and place.
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Christianity's dualistic claim is uniquely suited to provide the limits sought by liberalism and constitutionalism.
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Contrary to the belief they were deists and atheists, most of the American Founders believed in God’s providence and the natural law tradition.
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For Better Defense Spending, Split the Pentagon’s Budget in Two
Mackenzie Eaglen | Hill

Eight Thoughts on Israel’s Political Crisis
The rise of Middle Eastern culture in Israel is to be celebrated. The rise of Middle Eastern politics will make our fate identical to that of our neighbors

Profound and Pious
Decoding what made Abraham Joshua Heschel such a complicated and unique man—in the Jewish world, American culture, and our family—50 years after his death

From the AEI Archive: Historian Paul Johnson at AEI
Karlyn Bowman and Joseph Kosten | AEIdeas
Visitors to our country are often better able to understand our society than we are: Think of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Paul Johnson, the great British historian who died last week, did just that in his A History of the American People (Harper Perennial, 1997).

christian humanism & a.i.

1/26/2023

What Humanity Adds
The adjustments that AI will demand of our professional and educational institutions first require reflection on what it means to be human.
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We must approach the Constitution in the spirit that inheres in the document itself.
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Moral & Political Foundations of the American Founding

Catholic social teaching in a time of dissolution

Vincent Phillip Muñoz discusses the natural rights foundations of religious freedom.
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The Purpose of Mathematics in a Classical Education
The Limits of Liberty

Hamlet in the Metaxy
The Tragic South

Conservative legal minds rank the worst twenty Supreme Court decisions of all time.
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Turkey's Elections Are Not Just Turkey's

'The Shame of Pakistan': Blasphemy Accusers
Courageous Christian Woman Stands Up to Them by Nasir Saeed

The Necessary Island

The Great Jewish-American Entanglement
An interlocked mix of faith, politics, and identity lies at the root of America’s unique bond with the Jewish people, argues Walter Russell Mead.

Defeating Drones:
The Most Promising Weapons Are All Non-Kinetic.
By Loren Thompson, Forbes: "The current pattern of conflict in Ukraine suggests that the age of drone warfare has arrived."

Riedl, aside six other experts, discusses policies the Biden administration and Congress could implement to address inflation moving forward.

Mark P. Mills explores the potential outcomes of energy policies that would unlock hydrocarbon production without subsidy. Shifting expectations in the oil market, according to Mills, would reset expectations in the broader energy landscape.

The Job Market and Inflation
Allison Schrager, E21

Prices: Why Do They Matter?

Escaping the Cave of Liberalism
By William P. Bednarz on Feb 05, 2023 02:11 pm
D.C. Schindler's "The Politics of the Real" is a brilliant addition to the postliberal movement. By understanding liberalism as a distortion of the Christian order, we can recognize it as a sustained war upon reality. And we can understand a true postliberalism as nothing more or less than the New Evangelization, the effort of converting entire ...
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John Marshall: A Primer
Joseph Butler & the Unity of Faith and Nature

The institutional development, planning, and professional ethos behind naval operations provide the context that made famous victories possible.
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The historical-practice standard established by last year's landmark gun-rights case is proving to be manipulable in the lower courts.
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Grover Cleveland: A Man of Iron
A Backwards Civilization: Unthinking Leaders, Frenzied Citizens
Conservatism Stands for the Common Person
Thomas More: Virtuous Statesman

ROOTS OF MODERNITY IN PERVERSIONS OF CATHOLICISM

1/17/2023

A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin
interview with Stephen Kotkin via Uncommon KnowledgeHistorian Stephen Kotkin became the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2022. He taught at Princeton for more than 30 years, and is the author of nine works of history, including the first two volumes of his biography of Joseph Stalin, Paradoxes of Power, 1878 to 1928 and Waiting for Hitler, 1929 to 1941. He is now completing the third and final volume.

The Roots of Modernity in Perversions of Christianity

How to Appreciate Twentieth-Century Music

Reason, Faith, & the Struggle for Western Civilization

French political thinkers have long been fascinated by the English constitutional tradition, but they may not always have learned the right lessons.
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Samuel Adams had personal experience of the need for self-government and a great resentment of the distant manipulation of colonial affairs.
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Immerse Yourself
As modernism marks the centenary of its annus mirabilis, its great works of literature reveal the demands and rewards of reading.

THE NEW CRITERION, MYTHS OF THE 50'S

THE NEW CRITERION, HANS MOMMSEN ON THE THIRD REICH

C.S. Lewis’ “Old Western Men”

Creation, Incarnation, and Imagination

“Harrison Bergeron” and the New Middle

Thought Into Action

The Long Shadow of Pius XI, One Hundred Years Later

Profound and Pious
Decoding what made Abraham Joshua Heschel such a complicated and unique man—in the Jewish world, American culture, and our family—50 years after his death
BY ALTER YISRAEL SHIMON FEUERMAN

Conservative Humanism & the Challenge of the Post-Humanist Age
Southern Life, Agrarian Vision: The Apprenticeship of Andrew Lytle
America: Devolution, Revolution, or Renewal?
Integralism and the Common Good

THE RAGE OF ELIE WIESEL & TURKEY'S GENOCIDE OF CHRISTIANS CONTINUES

1/11/2023

Jews of Rage
The anger that fills the Yiddish original manuscript of Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’ is muted in the book that became the classic account of the Holocaust for gentiles
BY NAOMI SEIDMAN

The Insufficiency of Jordan Peterson

What Exactly Is Conservatism: Russell Kirk Edition

Turkey's Latest Genocidal Campaign: 2,500 Attacks on Christians, Kurds & Yazidis
by Raymond Ibrahim
The Stream
December 29, 2022
https://www.meforum.org/63993/turkey-latest-genocidal-campaign-2500-attacks-on

Is There Unity Between Religion and Philosophy?

Consumer Materialism and Christian Hope

The Waste Land Remains Contemporary
A dazzling new critical biography of T.S. Eliot’s modernist epic

Quality Over Quantity
We should be more concerned with the nature of the risks we take—and the effects they have on us, and society—than with their merely empirical details.

Knowledge and Verve
Remembering Paul Johnson

Edmund Burke and the Dignity of the Human Person

Nayeli Riano offers a fresh, Christian, and humanist perspective on art, literature, and culture.
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Ten theologians describe their paths to the Catholic Church

Grass and Ratzinger: Two former POWs with contrasting beliefs and postwar trajectories

Cardinal George Pell’s final years in Rome

Making a new start: Cardinal Sarah on the spiritual life

How to Appreciate Twentieth-Century Music

CARDINAL RATZINGER GONE

1/8/2023

FIRST THINGS

Pope Benedict XVI was a dominant force in the intellectual debate over the problems of progressive liberalism and our need for tradition.
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Benedict XVI’s political thought emanates from the same truth as his theological thought: that God is Logos.
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The Political Philosophy of Joseph Ratzinger
by Fr. James V. Schall
Joseph Ratzinger was aware of the central event of modernity, namely the transferal of basic Christian categories from the transcendent order to the political order of this world.
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Theologian of the Heart: Benedict XVI

Joseph Ratzinger: A Man Sent From God

Benedict XVI on Science, Philosophy, & Faith

T.S. Eliot as Conservative Mentor

Benedict XVI, “Communio,” & the Communion of Saints

Tolkien on Magic, Machines, & Mordor

Joseph Ratzinger: A Man Sent From God

Theologian of the Heart: Benedict XVI

Is There Unity Between Religion and Philosophy?

The Peacemaker explores how Reagan used negotiation and pressure to win the Cold War.
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Benedict always spoke of a “reason illumined by faith,” a dialogue that he believed characterized Europe at its best.
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Why Is Blinken Hiding Report on Global Terrorist Threats ?by A.J. Caschetta
National Review
January 3, 2023
https://www.meforum.org/63956/why-is-blinken-hiding-report-on-global-terrorist

Marriage: Why Bother?

A Principle of Reciprocity
Pope Benedict XVI’s contribution to Catholic social doctrine regarding markets and political systems can be seen in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate.

Consumer Materialism and Christian Hope

Snowbound

Is There Unity Between Religion and Philosophy?

Belonging Nowhere
Author Jean Rhys felt like a ghost in her own life, but her posthumous renown shows no sign of fading.
Album / British Library / Alamy Stock Photo

CHRIS POPE
Systems Within a System
Health care in the United States is not one thing: it is five different things.

US Health Policy and Market Reforms: An Introduction
James C. Capretta | AEI Press

Restoring American Capitalism
A new book argues that the modern American economy has strayed far from its entrepreneurial roots.

The editors of Law & Liberty highlight some of the top pieces of the year.
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The National Survey of Priests suggests a deep crisis in Catholic theology

New study of Dawson explores how religion is “the key of history”

Turkish 'Progress': Six-Year-Old Girl Married by Her Sheik Father

The esteemed economist's Great Transformation doesn't speak to the present moment in the way anti-liberals would have us believe.
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The liberal arts produce true freedom of thought, facilitate genuine multiculturalism, and establish the necessary conditions for democracy.
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WAR, STATECRAFT & PEACE

12/8/2022

Marriage & Manliness in Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”

American Foreign Policy Through the Ages
Mandelbaum offers readers an engaging book of measured appraisals, devoid of revisionism and partisan leanings.
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Putting Tocqueville’s Remedies into Practice
A new book explores a Tocquevillian response to popular sovereignty, nationalism, and globalization.
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Creation, Incarnation, and Imagination
By Michael De Sapio on Dec 17, 2022 04:00 pm
The ideas of Creation (God making all things through an act of his will) and Incarnation (God being present to his creation) are the reason for the West’s creativity in the arts and sciences, a creativity instigated by Christian minds building upon the classical past. If you happen to read any part of Daniel J. ...
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The Inklings and the Outbreak of World War II

Is Specialization Killing Culture?

HOW ROBESPIERRE LIVES TODAY

9/18/2022

Genocide in Nigeria: The Biden Administration's Cover-Up by Raymond Ibrahim

Advance Made in USA Policy by Lawrence Kadish

Robespierre and Us
by daniel j. mahoney
The paradoxes of Robespierre still remain at the heart of a powerful if deformed version of modernity.
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GEORGE WEIGEL, DANIEL KENNELLY
Conciliar Contentions
City Talk

The Philosopher as Essayist
by max skjönsberg
Hume was a quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters, as evidenced by his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.
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Old Wisdom for Perilous Times
Aaron Sachs skillfully weaves the stories of Herman Melville and his biographer, Lewis Mumford, into a poignant lesson about history's uncanny echoes.
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Why Vatican II Was Necessary By George Weigel on Oct 19, 2022 03:05 am
Writing my new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books), afforded me the welcome opportunity to dig into the Council’s 16 texts and the many fine commentaries on them. [...]

Vatican II: Five views sixty years on By Larry Chapp on Oct 15, 2022 10:49 pm
Everybody I know seems to be writing something on Vatican II these days and I began feeling a bit left out of the fun. So, I thought I would jump into the mosh pit of [...]
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New study of priesthood should be received as a “wake-up” call By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Oct 20, 2022 01:22 pm
The release of The Catholic Project’s study of priests and the data revealed therein should be welcomed by all Catholics. I must say, however, that data did not surprise me in the least – especially [...]
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Whether we study our own times or the human condition more broadly, we quickly discover the need for serious philosophic reflection on human limits.
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Some Thoughts on Moving Beyond "Neoliberal Globalization"
James Pethokoukis | AEIdeas
Rana Foroohar's piece criticizing neoliberal globalization warrants an examination of the benefits of globalization over the years.
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VASECTOMIES RISING, THE POST DOBBS REALITY

8/15/2022

The Family & the Orchard: The Story of Civilization in the “Odyssey”
y Mitchell Kalpakgian on Sep 13, 2022 02:30 pm
The planting of trees in the orchard—the passing down of tradition, of the moral wisdom of the past, of the torch of life, and of the beauty of life’s simplest but richest and pleasures—produces the great harvest of joy that culminates in the final chapters of the "Odyssey." Editor’s Note: This is the final essay ...
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Kristin Lavransdatter in a Nutshell
The power and profundity of Kristen Lavransdatter has as its source the author’s profound understanding of the meaning of life.
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Post-Dobbs Vasectomies on the Rise

Islam’s Lessons for Liberalism by jeffrey bristol
The concern for liberty in Islamic political thought is often overlooked.
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The Causes of the Great Depression

An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on Vatican II (Guest: Fr. Peter Heers)

Augusto Del Noce revealed the horrors of the 20th century's experiments with Marxism.
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Why Should We Study War
Featuring Victor Davis Hanson via PolicyEdThe academic discipline of military history is in decline, but it must be revived to understand how to prevent wars from occurring. Pretending that wars are a relic of the past ignores recent and distant conflicts and makes unrealistic assumptions about human nature. The notion that wars can be prevented by technological advancement, money, education, or good intentions must be abandoned.

Gifts From We Know Not Where

Saint Augustine: Founding Philosopher of History

Why Work Matters

The Dignity of Work

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Phil Gramm and John F. Early offer compelling evidence that Americans near the bottom of the income scale ultimately receive as much, if not more, income as those at the middle. Correcting the Census Bureau's income measure to account for taxes and transfer payments, Gramm and Early find roughly equal incomes among the bottom 60 percent of American households, despite those near the bottom working far less than those at the middle. On September 12, AEI President Robert Doar will join Gramm and Early for a conversation about their upcoming book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

HOW MUSLIMS CATCH UP WITH THE WEST

7/22/2022

How Muslims Can Catch Up by Daniel Pipes
Washington Times
July 21, 2022
https://www.danielpipes.org/21317/how-muslims-can-catch-up

Another assault on John Paul II
By George Weigel on Jul 27, 2022 03:05 am
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II had lunch in the papal apartment with Dr. Jerome Lejeune, the renowned French pediatrician and geneticist who identified the chromosomal abnormality that causes Down Syndrome. Dr. Lejeune [...]
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A Restless Tocqueville

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Is Amoris Laetitia Orthodox? (Guest: Dr. Eduardo Echeverria)

JPII ON THE SPLENDOR OF TRUTH

Public Pensions’ Lost Decade
The bear market has set government retirement systems back ten years in funding, even as taxpayers ante up ever more to keep them afloat.

HOOVER DIGEST 2022

What Is Civilization? By Joseph Pearce on Aug 09, 2022 04:00 pm
Is civilization worth defending? Should we aim to conform to it so that we can be considered civilized? Should we aim to bring our children up according to its norms so that they can also be considered civilized? Should we try to make our country and our world as civilized as possible? The chances are ...
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The Causes of the Great Depression By Mark Malvasi on Aug 09, 2022 04:14 pm
By the fall of 1932, most Americans had come to perceive the depression differently than they had at its beginning. Growing numbers began to worry that depression, rather than being a temporary and purgative event, marked a permanent condition of material scarcity and economic stagnation. With fears mounting that the economy is about to slip ...
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National Conservatism and the Declaration

'Death to Blasphemers': Islam's Ancient War on Critics of Muhammad by Raymond Ibrahim
The Stream
August 14, 2022
https://www.meforum.org/63460/death-to-blasphemers-islam-ancient-war-on-critics

CHRISTIAN AESTHETICS AS LOVE

6/28/2022

Original Unintentions: The Franchise and the Constitution

The Family & the Orchard: The Story of Civilization in the Odyssey

It’s Time for a Greater Reset

Why Democracy Needs Aristocracy

The Issue of Slavery at the Constitutional Convention

Lord of the World in a Nutshell

Taste and See
By John Lee on Jun 25, 2022 04:00 pm
Beauty is not found power, military glory, or victory. As great as these things are, love is a surer guide. Considering this point, we would also do well to contemplate what causes us to love most, love best? When we do, isn’t it the love that someone has for us? 1. Aesthetics Leads Aesthetics before ...
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We Are Your Death": The Persecution of Christians, May 2022

Endgame: Teaching the Way of the Family

Daniel Boorstin Against the Barbarians

St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More, & the Tudor Terror

The English Way

The Abraham Accords and the Changing Shape of the Middle East

Islamic Antisemitism Drives the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Mark Durie
Middle East Quarterly
Summer 2022 (view PDF)
https://www.meforum.org/63274/islamic-antisemitism-drives-the-arab-israeli-conflict

The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire

Russell Kirk’s “Southern Valor”

Hilaire Belloc and His World
Irving Babbitt: The Man and His Thought
On Teaching, Writing, and Other Discontents

The Attempt to Undermine Humanae Vitae (Guest: Dr. Janet Smith)

METAPHYSICS & SPIRITUAL REALITY DISCERNED

5/4/2022

“Endgame”: Teaching the Way of the Family
Daniel Boorstin Against the Barbarians

Being Alive to Reality

Deepening Prayer and Hearing God’s Voice
The Poverty of Liberal Economics

St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More, & the Tudor Terror
By Joseph Pearce on Jun 21, 2022 05:26 pm
The final word on the legacy of John Fisher and Thomas More, and the final judgment (under God) on why we should see them as heroes, is given by G. K. Chesterton, a man who proves in his very self that the killing of More and Fisher did not kill learning, laughter or holiness: "There ...
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The English Way
By Bradley J. Birzer on Jun 21, 2022 04:57 pm
The Catholic Church canonized Saints Thomas More and John Fisher in 1935, only two years after the appearance of The English Way, a work edited by one of the most important Christian humanists and publishers of the twentieth century, Maisie Ward, and which looks at the lives, ideas, and deaths of the great Roman Catholic ...
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IS ISLAM AN EARLY CHRISTIAN ARAB HERESY?

11/21/2021

Returning to Joseph Ratzinger’s timeless What It Means to Be a Christian

The German Church and the dissolution of the one-flesh unity

Joseph Ratzinger: A Man Sent From God

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons continues to illuminate a path forward amidst our debilitating contemporary crisis.
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Why do Europeans lack the enthusiasm that so many Americans have for Ayn Rand and her ideas?
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2021's Biggest Hits at Daniel Pipes.org by Daniel Pipes
Jan 5, 2022
https://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2022/01/2021-biggest-hits-at-danielpipesorg

What Is Islam's Relationship to Christianity?
Theological Analysis of the Bible and the Quran by Mark Durie
Lausanne Global Analysis
November 2021
https://www.meforum.org/62784/what-is-islams-relationship-to-christianity

Irrational Forces: Christopher Dawson on the Modern Age
Is Western Civilization Dead?
Patiently Rebuilding the West

Two cases confront the Supreme Court this term that could threaten the essential legal underpinnings of the federal administrative state.
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The Brilliant Enigma That Was Willmoore Kendall
by Donald DevineWillmoore Kendall’s works on political science were pathbreaking and survive the test of time. Even today, it is impossible to understand the equal democratic legitimacy of the presidency and Congress without his “Two Majorities,” or the critical role of local-based political parties without his “American Party System,” or how the whole Constitution works to solve democracy’s eternal problem of faction without comprehending his “Intensity”... [MORE]

ADAM KIRSCH
Thomas Mann’s Dilemma
The great novelist’s defense of the nonpolitical continues to resonate.

Andrew Lytle & the Politics of Agrarianism

MIDDLE EAST FORUM: MOVIE, THE LADY OF HEAVEN
https://islamism.news/2022/06/15/lady-of-heaven-producer-malik-shlibak-discusses-the-ideological-battle-behind-blasphemy-allegations/

'No Shakespeare' without Islam? by A.J. Caschetta
National Review
June 26, 2022
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63347/no-shakespeare-without-islam

WHY SHELBY STEELE MATTERS

11/21/2021

American Humanist
Featuring Shelby Steele via City Journal

America Needs More Than “Guardrails” with China
By Michael Auslin via Spectator World

Inflation, the Fed and “Zero Dollars”
Featuring Michael J. Boskin and Bill Whalen via Matters of Policy and Politics

Macbeth in a Nutshell

The changing face of social breakdown
What is the primary source of social dysfunction in America today? Responding to an important recent study about family formation, Yuval Levin identifies significant changes in how we should think about social breakdown and obstacles to human flourishing. Levin argues that whereas it was common knowledge that "exorbitant human desires" were responsible for social breakdown, what afflicts us now is "more like an absence of energy and drive leaving people languishing and enervated."

Irving Babbitt and the Crisis of Nationalism, 1915

Jesus Christ as Palestinian Terrorist? by Raymond Ibrahim
Raymondibrahim.com

The Dying and Rising Art of Motherhood

WHY MALTHUS STILL MATTERS; POPE BENEDICT'S REPUBLIC OF REASON

10/5/2021

Malthus's shadow still looms large, influencing biology, environmentalism, economics, and other disciplines of knowledge today.
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Will Ethiopia’s genocide be worse than Rwanda’s?
Michael Rubin | Washington Examiner

Benedict XVI’s Republic of Reason
Declining to hide behind sentimental humanitarian bromides, Benedict XVI calls for us to engage modernity fully in faith and reason.
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Liberal Pieties, Illiberal Consequences
We can fight censorious certitude by allowing for moral complexity.

The Tory Interpretation of History

Six German thinkers looked to Cardinal John Henry Newman to defend Christian humanism.
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“Is America in irreversible decline?” Conrad Black delivers the third annual Circle Lecture with an introduction by Roger Kimball.

EVERYTHING IS BROKEN
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CATHOLIC ECONOMICS
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