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CHRISTOPHER DAWSON & ERIC VOEGELIN TAKE ON THE SOURCE OF MODERNITY: LIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

3/30/2019

Christopher Dawson on 19th Century Critics of Liberalism Bradley Birzer
As Christopher Dawson attempted to discover the sources of the ideological disruptions of the twentieth century as well as solutions to the death and terror they caused, he often produced some of his most impassioned work. Indeed, he often comes across, for lack of a better way of putting it, as inspired, a prophet, ready […]

THE STATUS OF MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

3/30/2019

The West's Crimes against Persecuted Minorities in the Middle East by Judith Bergman

THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN ALIENATION & THE NON-ACADEMIC FOUNDATION OF LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION, WHY TACIT KNOWLEDGE MATTERS

3/26/2019

CRISIS MAGAZINE

A Manifesto for Liberal Education
By Eva Brann on Mar 25, 2019 10:00 pm
Since liberal education is non-academic, in my sense, it has real gravity, moral gravity. And so it is, finally, also concerned with
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The touch screen revolution tilts the playing field to the elites
Timothy P. Carney | Washington Examiner

WIKIQUOTE ON TACIT KNOWLEDGE

Two Kinds of Education
By Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg on Mar 31, 2019 10:00 pm
We ought to discern the truth about our modern schools, remove our children from their ravages, and turn to the building of
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THE GENOCIDE OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN SYRIAN PRISONS: RAPE AS POLICY & MENTALLY DISABLED GIRL IN PAKISTAN CHARGED WITH BLASPHEMY

3/25/2019

Thousands of Muslim Women Raped, Tortured, Killed in Syrian Prisons

Pakistan: Mentally Disabled Christians Charged with Blasphemy by Raymond Ibrahim

HOW TO PRESERVE FRAMEWORK FOR TRUTH: TRADITION AS A THEOLOGICAL LANGUAGE, A LOOK AT KOSOVO, WHEN THE US BACKED INDIGENOUS MUSLIMS IN THE BALKANS & WRECKING THE IDOL OF OUR AGE WITH CARDINAL SARAH

3/23/2019

A Brief Summary of Traditionalism

Structures, traditions, and hierarchical accountability
By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Mar 25, 2019 07:42 pm
Even now, in 2019, the First Vatican Council (1869-70) haunts us still. It has, in many ways, paralyzed Catholics and kept them from thinking more radically about what is needed in this dark hour. It [...]
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The Kosovo War in Retrospect by James Goldgeier and Gorana Grgić

Cardinal Sarah: God never abandons His Church
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 28, 2019 07:53 pm
Vatican City, Mar 28, 2019 / 12:39 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Robert Sarah defended papal primacy and priestly celibacy, and called for unity among Catholics in the face of Church scandals and the moral crisis in [..]
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Recognizing and rejecting “The Idol of Our Age”
By Carl E. Olson on Mar 27, 2019 09:30 pm
Daniel J. Mahoney holds the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College, where he is a Professor of Politics. He received his B.A. from the College of Holy Cross and his M.A. and Ph.D. from [...]
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SCHOOL ADMISSION BRIBERY: THE STING OF MERITOCRACY & GEORGE WEIGEL'S LECTURE ON THE CRISIS OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY

3/22/2019

THE STING OF MERITOCRACY By EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin
National Review Online
The college-admissions scandal is not really about how people get into elite colleges; it’s about how elites behave in our society.
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LIARS AND CHEATS By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
The admissions scandal at top colleges suggests that a better system would be to eliminate all preferences — racial, ethnic, geographic, legacy, donor, sports — all of it. Read More

GEORGE WEIGEL

ENGLAND'S WAR ON CHRISTIANITY & WHY LITURGY NEEDS DOCTRINE

3/19/2019

Britain's War on Christianity: Part I by Soeren Kern •

Proper Liturgy Needs Doctrinal Truth Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
“This is why respect for truth is ultimately inseparable from what we call worship. Truth and cult are inextricably united—one cannot exist without the other, however often history may have separated them.” ∼ Joseph Ratzinger (1982) Liturgical thought today seems to downplay the importance of doctrine while elevating the significance of practice. The harmony of lex orandi […]

SPRINGSTEEN SINGS OF JESUS; THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE TACKLES NIETZSCHE, POPE FRANCIS SEEKS TO CANONIZE NEWMAN

3/18/2019

THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE

Behold the Demon: Nietzsche as Destroyer
By Bradley J. Birzer on Mar 15, 2019 10:00 pm
Friedrich Nietzche’s Ecce Homo lays waste to centuries of an ethic of inhibition and restraint. Intellectually brutalized, bloodied, and tortured, the nineteenth-century philosopher presented
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Nietzsche and the Short Nineteenth Century By Bradley J. Birzer on Mar 18, 2019 10:00 pm
As Christopher Dawson argued, the nineteenth century proved a short century. When the century began, Thomas Jefferson delivered his gorgeous blueprint for
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WHY CHARLES DICKENS MAKES ME CRY & THE RETURN OF NATURE FOR MAN'S THINKING; JOHN LOCKE

3/15/2019

The Re-Discovery of Nature By George Stanciu on Mar 13, 2019 10:00 pm
For modern Westerners, nature is opaque, mute, transmits no message, and holds no key to existence. But in reality, nature reveals the
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Why Charles Dickens Makes Me Cry By Christine Norvell on Mar 13, 2019 10:00 pm
I have read A Tale of Two Cities at least eight times now. Each time, I cry. Yes, each time. Why, I
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John Locke on The Reasonableness of Christianity

HOW POPE FRANCIS EMBODIES TWO ANCIENT HERESIES; WHAT'S NEXT FOR CARDINAL PELL

3/14/2019

CRUX

What’s next for Cardinal Pell? By Catholic News Agency on Mar 13, 2019 04:11 pm
Melbourne, Australia, Mar 13, 2019 / 01:11 pm (CNA).- On Wednesday, Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in prison following his conviction on five charges of sexual abuse of minors. He will be [...]
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The mad logic of political calculation and ideological fanaticism By Russell Shaw on Mar 14, 2019 02:33 pm
Let us agree that the 44 Democratic senators whose votes last month blocked the Born Alive Protection Act aren’t monsters. But, that agreed, let us also agree that what they did had the monstrous result [...]
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At six year mark, Francis’ pontificate struggles with crisis as stakes increase By Christopher R. Altieri on Mar 13, 2019 03:18 pm
Sixth anniversaries aren’t really a thing. Nobody thinks they are — not really — except insofar as it is a news hook on which to hang editorial copy, like that, which came on the occasion from [...]
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The Holy See and Cardinal Pell By George Weigel on Mar 13, 2019 03:01 am
Cardinal George Pell’s December 2018 conviction on charges of “historic sexual abuse” was a travesty of justice, thanks in part to a public atmosphere of hysterical anti-Catholicism — a fetid climate that had a devastating [...]
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What Newman Can Tell Us About the Cardinal Pell Verdict Fr. George W. Rutler
The scene in the London courtroom in 1852 might have been out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, with the defendant in simple clerical black standing in the dock before the bewigged representatives of ancient justice. But one of the judges, John Coleridge, a great-nephew of the poet, saw behind the stooped figure of John […]

The Politically Incorrect Francis—14 Shocking Statements Paul Kengor
Editor’s note: The following essay by Professor Kengor is considerably longer than the typical Crisis article. We try to be mindful of the reading habits of our Internet audience which tends to favor shorter pieces. However, Professor Kengor’s essay is original, timely, well-documented, and very readable. Crisis welcomes the lively discussion and debate it will […]

BEST BIO OF C.S. LEWIS & SHORT LOOK AT IMMEDIACY AND ARISTOTLE

3/12/2019

Conflicted But Redeemed: James Como’s Life of C.S Lewis
By Bradley J. Birzer on Mar 11, 2019 10:00 pm
James Como’s C.S Lewis: A Very Short Introduction is delightful and is the single finest biographical survey yet written on the Oxford don.
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Immediacy: The Ways of Humanity
By Eva Brann on Mar 11, 2019 10:00 pm
Opposition to greatness comes from the kind of irrational irritation that made the Athenians ostracize Aristides because they were tired of hearing
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Wanted: Scholar to Document Progressive Perversity
By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, March 11, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The academy needs a competent and ambitious historian to document the many instances of progressive perversity throughout the centuries. Topics to be examined should include the antisemitism of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the “Prince of Humanism”; the French Revolution, during which progressives guillotined other progressives; the antisemitism of progressives like Voltaire, most French socialist leaders of the nineteenth century, and Karl Marx; communism; and the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, which was an iconic example of progressive perversity.
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RICHARD BURTON VICTORIANS, ROBERT KAGAN ON THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERALISM & A LOOK AT SIMONE WEIL

3/10/2019

THE NEW CRITERION: RICHARD BURTON

ROBERT KAGAN: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERALISM

SIMONE WEIL: SHOCK PHILOSOPHER

CHILD EXECUTIONS IN IRAN: THE GREAT SATAN CONTINUES

3/9/2019

Iran: Child Executions, Amputations, Floggings by Majid Rafizadeh

THE HAZARDS OF SECULAR MORAL SENTIMENTALITY & HOW CHRISTIAN HUMANISM IS DIFFERENT

3/8/2019

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What Makes the Christian Worldview Different from the Rest Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
One cannot live without developing opinions about the nature of reality, so every well-defined culture and faith naturally introduces its members to a way of seeing the world. While we can easily name many different worldviews, perhaps the five most important ones are: 1) the Chinese, 2) Indian, 3) Muslim, 4) secular humanist, and 5) […]

WHY A HOMOSEXUAL NAMED WHITTAKER CHAMBERS STILL MATTERS & ISHMAEL ISN'T THE FATHER OF THE ARABS

3/6/2019

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Why the “Witness” of Whittaker Chambers Is Still Relevant Clara Sarrocco
One might wonder why an almost 800-page book written 67 years ago (1952) by an author who died in 1961 would still have any relevance today. The book is Witness by Whittaker Chambers. It is both an autobiography and a “tell-all” book of a complicated life, of espionage, of a notorious court case, and finally […]

Ishmael is Not the Father of the Arabs by Mark Durie
MarkDurie.com
March 6, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/57936/ishmael-father-arabs

WHAT'S WRONG WITH JOHN RAWLS & AESCHYLUS ON SUFFERING

3/6/2019

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Aeschylus on Suffering By Louis Markos on Mar 05, 2019 10:00 pm
O, ye self-protective children of the twenty-first century, I hope you will see that suffering can be redemptive, that it can bridge
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THE ARBITERS OF TASTE AND CULTURE HATE THEIR AUDIENCES

3/6/2019

CITY JOURNAL

11 CHRISTIANS KILLED EVERYDAY FOR THEIR FAITH

3/4/2019

Report: "11 Christians Killed Every Day for Their Faith"by Raymond Ibrahim

Massacres Inside Churches and Attacks on Them
Philippines: On Sunday, January 27, Islamic militants bombed a Roman Catholic cathedral during Mass. At least 20 people were killed and 111 wounded. Two explosives were detonated about a minute apart in the vicinity of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo at around 8:45 a.m. According to one report, "The initial explosion scattered the wooden pews inside the main hall and blasted window glass panels, and the second bomb hurled human remains and debris across a town square fronting the cathedral."
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WHY JOHN PAUL II THEOLOGY OF THE BODY MATTERS

3/1/2019

St. John Paul II Is More Relevant Than Ever John Hittinger
An informative, comprehensive, well written and persuasive book, The Splendor of Marriage was published by Angelico Press to mark the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae (1968). In a culminating chapter, Richard Spinello lays out the argument of Humanae Vitae and makes it clear why the document is so central to Catholic […]

Modern Blindness: Failure to See What Is Real and True Edvard Lorkovic
Aristotle says that sight is the most philosophical sense. Of the five senses, it most resembles our capacity to know. We naturally desire both to see and to know. Indeed, knowing is an intellectual seeing. Of course, “I see” can mean “I understand.” Plato calls the highest kind of knowing noesis, typically translated into English […]

CATHOLIC ECONOMICS
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THE CHURCH'S GREATEST CRISIS

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SEPARATION OF FAITH-REASON
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