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JOHN CALHOON & GRAHAM GREENE'S "THE POWER & THE GLORY": WHY THEY MATTER

4/5/2020

WHY THE MASS MATTERS

Lessons from a Whisky Priest
Peter Kwasniewski
In February, I read a novel for a men’s book club (back then, we still had the good fortune to be able to meet for normal social interactions; March’s meeting got canceled). The novel was Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, which I had never read, and had always reproached myself for not having […]Read More

Jurgen Habermas, John C. Calhoun, and Slavery
By Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts on Apr 03, 2020 04:00 pm
Perhaps no American thinker has suffered more from a scholarly hegemony of discourse than John C. Calhoun, whose work and personage are often dismissed by his critics for a single phrase attributed to him, diminishing the careful and complicated analysis he deserves. The careful reader does not have to be a devotee of Jürgen ...
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Christopher Caldwell’s “The Age of Entitlement”

A short history of decline
Giselle Donnelly | The American Interest

Cardinal Pell Is Vindicated
Sean Fitzpatrick
“I have consistently maintained my innocence while suffering from a serious injustice.” These words, issued by George Cardinal Pell upon his acquittal on Tuesday, should both heal and haunt the Catholic Church. There can be no justice if there is no truth. And, even in the wake of inexcusable abuse by Catholic bishops, the truth […]Read More

Harrington’s Cake: Institutions, Power, and Virtue

Liberty and Democracy in Western Civilization

The Best Way to Fight Leftism

Aristotle's Revenge

The Hounds in Full Cry: Roger Scruton’s Conservatism

THE PERSECUTION OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: SAUDI ARABIA & IRAN LEAD

3/29/2020

The San Remo Conference 100 Years On
By Prof. Efraim Karsh, April 24, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There is probably no more understated event in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict than the San Remo Conference of April 1920. Convened for a mere week as part of the post-WWI peace conferences that created a new international order on the basis of indigenous self-rule and national self-determination, the San Remo conference appointed Britain as mandatory for Palestine with the specific task of “putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2, 1917, by the British Government [i.e., the Balfour Declaration], and adopted by the other Allied Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” This mandate was then ratified on July 24, 1922 by the Council of the League of Nations—the postwar world organization and the UN’s predecessor.
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Gang rape of disabled woman horrifies Iraqis
A sexual assault on a mentally disabled Kurdish woman in a predominantly Turkmen town has shocked and outraged people across Iraq.

Saudi Arabia and Iran Both Persecute Religious and Ethnic Minorities
By Dr. James M. Dorsey, March 25, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A series of recent measures in Saudi Arabia and Iran that gravely violate the rights of religious and ethnic minorities call into question their moral claims of adhering to core faith-based values of mercy and compassion.
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"The Governments of India and Pakistan solemnly agree that each shall ensure, to the minorities throughout its territory, complete equality of citizenship, irrespective of religion, a full sense of security in respect of life, culture, property and personal honour, freedom of movement within each country and freedom of occupation, speech and worship, subject to law and morality. Members of the minorities shall have equal opportunity with members of the majority community to participate in the public life of their country."

- Liaquat–Nehru Agreement (or the Delhi Pact), a bilateral treaty between India and Pakistan that sought to guarantee the rights of minorities in both countries after the partition of the subcontinent, signed by Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on this date in 1950.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS NOT A BOON GRANTED BY THE BENIGN STATE
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report

Just governments have obligations to protect religious freedom as an unalienable right of persons, and to regulate its exercise for the sake of the common good. They will do that regulation properly if they keep that prior obligation firmly in mind, and resist the temptation to imagine that they “confer” religious freedom on the people they serve. Read More

WHY ERIC VOEGELIN MATTERS & WHAT DO INSTITUTIONS SERVE

3/22/2020

Eric Voegelin, Conservative?

On the Anniversary of Goethe’s Death
By David Gosselin on Mar 21, 2020 04:00 pm
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) remains Germany’s most popular poet and arguably its best alongside Friedrich Schiller.[1] Born in Frankfurt into a bourgeois upper-middle-class family, he spent his early years as a leading voice in the Romantic literary movement known ...
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The World Must Come to Walsingham
Michael Warren Davis
This face, for centuries a memory, Non est species, neque decor, Expressionless, expresses God: it goes Past castled Sion. She knows what God knows, Not Calvary’s Cross nor crib at Bethlehem Now, and the world shall come to Walsingham. Frederick Wilhelmsen called Juan Donoso Cortés the Augustine of the nineteenth century: the chronicler of civilization’s […]Read More

George Santayana and the Ironies of Liberalism By Nayeli Riano on Apr 07, 2020 04:00 pm
The question—is liberalism a self-defeating enterprise?—has gained traction over the last couple of years. Even as far back as 1921, the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana dedicated time to this topic in the form of an essay he titled “The Irony of Liberalism.” In this brief work, Santayana explored prevalent themes that emerged throughout liberalism’s ...
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James Harrington insists on the possibility of an empire of laws. The claim that institutional arrangements can force self-interested behavior to serve the common interest underlies the system of separated powers and checks and balances central to the American constitutional order. But is he right? Can this theory of “dividing-and-choosing” give us confidence? “Two ...
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The End of Decadence?

Charles Peguy on the Hubris of Modernism

Henri Lefebvre and the Urban Revolution

“Libertopia”: A Glimpse Into a Progressive Future

Humanism as Realism

HOW TO UNDERSTAND POPE FRANCIS & WHY TOM HOLLAND'S DOMINION MATTERS TODAY

3/8/2020

The life, faith, and struggle of Joseph Ratzinger: An interview with Peter Seewald
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 13, 2021 10:58 pm
The veteran German journalist Peter Seewald first met Joseph Ratzinger nearly thirty years ago. Since then he has published two best-selling book length interviews with Cardinal Ratzinger—Salt of the Earth: An Exclusive Interview on the [...]
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Francis vs. the Deep Church
Michael Warren Davis
Does the Vatican have a General Directorate for Personnel? This is, perhaps, the most boring question ever posed by a writer in Crisis Magazine. And yet, as we fumble for an answer, we also come a little closer to understanding one of the most confounding papacies in 2,000 years of Christian history. Last Friday, the […] Read More

A Pontificate under the Banner of Mary: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Pope Saint John Paul II
By CWR Staff on May 13, 2020 11:58 pm
Editor’s note: This essay, written by Hans Urs von Balthasar in 1988, was published in the May 2020 issue of KIRCHE heute (Church today) and is republished here in English, in slightly different form, with [...]
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Medium, Message, Meaning By Amy Welborn on Jan 11, 2021 07:47 pm
Over the past half-decade or so, blogs – which along with discussion boards of various types, had long provided the main venues for conversation and expression on the Internet – have been thoroughly usurped by [...]
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Seamless Garment or Political Comforter? Michael M. Uhlmann
In the 1970’s, the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and his episcopal allies advanced the notion that Catholic politicians should not be judged only, or even primarily, by their position on abortion. Abortion was merely one strand in a rich and finely woven “seamless garment” of Catholic social teaching in defense of life. Numerous other issues, […]Read More

For Thine is the Kingdom: Tom Holland’s “Dominion”
By Dwight Longenecker on Mar 07, 2020 03:59 pm
Like a queen who rides a bicycle, Tom Holland’s “Dominion” is both majestic and down-to-earth. From antiquity to modernity, Mr. Holland traces a sneaky thesis that Christianity has changed the world—transforming it from the inside out. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, by Tom Holland (624 pages, Basic Books, 2019) Every once ...
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Back to basics for conservative education reform
Character formation, civics, and the inculcation of the best of our traditions are inseparable from any meaningful idea of education, writes Yuval Levin. Conservatives will now have to press that case — and help our fellow citizens see its promise.
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Higher Education’s Contemporary Identity Crisis

In Defense of Elitism

Mathematics and Liberal Education

Just What Is Christian Humanism?

The Culture of Conservatism

Discerning the Spirits: Gerhart Niemeyer as Culture Critic

The Three Conservative Burkes: Hayek, Strauss, and Kirk

Opening the fifth seal: Catholic martyrs and forces of religious competition
Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro | AEI Economic Policy Working Paper Series

Two months into his pontificate, Pope Francis canonized the 813 martyrs of Otranto, the largest such group in recorded Catholic Church history. Five months later, Francis beatified another large group, 499 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. Francis continues to emphasize martyrs over confessors, the name given to blessed persons who died of natural causes. Over 100 martyrs’ causes for Guatemala are at various stages of investigation for eventual beatification. Papal attention of this magnitude for a small country such as Guatemala seems, at first glance, to be excessive, but this pattern is not an outlier, constituting part of the pontifical global perspective articulated first by St. John Paul II and now Francis. This paper assembles data on martyrs chosen by popes from 1588 (Pope Sixtus V) to early 2020 (Francis).

Lies and Truths About Who We Are
By George Stanciu on Mar 09, 2020 04:00 pm
The most important question a person can ask is the philosophical question, “Who am I?”, because without knowing who we truly are, we will not be sure that what we seek is good for us and what we try to avoid is bad. The unexamined answer given to the philosophical question determines to a ...
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Byzantium’s Orphans, Rome’s Foundlings: The Legacy of the Greek Unionists
By Charles Yost on Mar 11, 2020 04:00 pm
The admonitions of Byzantine’s unionists resonate well beyond the Fall of Constantinople—if we had but ears to hear them. Indeed, we today, standing amidst the threatened walls of the house of the West that was once known as Christendom must cherish a culture of Christian solidarity, the conviction that the City of God is ...
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Joseph Ratzinger on fasting from the Eucharist
By CWR Staff on Mar 19, 2020 11:42 am
In Behold the Pierced One (pp.97-98), Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) wrote: “When Augustine sensed his death approaching, he ‘excommunicated’ himself and undertook public penance. In his last days he manifested his solidarity with the public [...]
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The Contributions of Eva Brann to American Political Thought
By Elizabeth Eastman on Mar 19, 2020 04:00 pm
Eva Brann’s contributions to American Political Thought is a starting point that allows the student to grasp the heart of her pursuits—that is, education. For Dr. Brann, the effort to understand the principles of the Declaration of Independence or discern how best to educate the citizens of a democratic republic can take place between ...
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Celibacy Is a Gift to Priests—and the Laity Michael Warren Davis
Few books have caused so much controversy even before they were published than did From the Depths of Our Hearts, a new defense of clerical celibacy in the Roman Church by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Robert Cardinal Sarah. On January 14, Benedict’s private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, told the Italian news agency ANSA that, […]Read More

Male and Female He Created Them. And for a Good Reason Anthony Esolen
It has been just six years since I wrote Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity, warning against the fantasy that two members of the same sex can marry one another, when they cannot even have sexual relations but can only mimic them. I founded my arguments not upon Scripture or the teaching of the Church—indeed I did not […]

ISLAM AND PLURALITY; EGYPT ROILS FROM GIRLS DEATH: GENITAL MUTILATION

2/28/2020

Sudan outlaws female genital mutilation
Sudan's criminalization of the practice done to a majority of young girls won praise and may reflect some change in attitudes.

GUY SORMAN
Islam Is Plural

Are Muslim Women Trapped in Marriages in Denmark? by Judith Bergman

MIDDLE EAST FORUM JOURNAL

Egypt faces calls for stricter laws after young girl dies from genital mutilation
Public anger over the death of a girl after she underwent female genital mutilation has forced both the Egyptian government and top clerics to take a stand.

A 20TH CENTURY TOLSTOY

2/17/2020

A 20th-Century Tolstoy?

Why the Left Is Losing
The Political Economy of the Free Exercise

Scott Soames demonstrates how analytical philosophy shaped our world, but slights phenomenology and religion. Read More »

Emma. Perfect.

THE ESCAPE FROM HONOR KILLINGS & MUSLIMS VS. EGYPT'S CHRISTIAN COPTS

2/16/2020

"They Came to Kill Him": The Persecution of Christians - November 2019 by Raymond Ibrahim

Western Governments Play a Key Role in Successful Honor Killing Escapes by Phyllis Chesler
The Investigative Project on Terrorism
February 11, 2020
https://www.meforum.org/60409/western-governments-play-a-key-role-in-successful

TOLKIN'S HEIR: HIS SON

2/13/2020

Now Residing in the Blessed Realm: Christopher Tolkien

The World That Christianity Made
The Inescapable Particularity of Strong Gods

Rémi Brague’s bracing critique of modernity’s low-rent logos
By Richard M. Reinsch II on Feb 12, 2020 08:27 pm
In Curing Mad Truths, French philosopher Rémi Brague argues that the modern world is dying because it cannot answer the question of why it should live. To answer that question will require humility, according to [...]
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On transgenderism: Common ground, and real differences, between Catholics and radical feminists By Catholic News Agency on Feb 13, 2020 10:05 pm
Washington D.C., Feb 13, 2020 / 05:10 pm (CNA).- This article is the second part of Mary Farrow’s two-part series on the Church, gender-critical feminists, and transgender ideology. Part one was published on Feb. 10. [...]
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THE SAUDI'S REFORM OF ISLAM; THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY IN MESOPOTAMIA & HOW TO UNDERSTAND POPE FRANCIS

2/10/2020

Saudi Arabia’s ‘Slow Steaming’ Changes to Islam May Just Work
By James G. Zumwalt, The Hill: "“Slow steaming” is a concept by which container ships operate at lower speeds to minimize wear and tear on engines, save fuel, reduce emissions and otherwise improve efficiency. This concept proves that, sometimes, slower can be better than faster."

Making sense of Pope Francis on faith, evangelization, and proselytizing (Part II)
By Eduardo Echeverria on Feb 05, 2020 11:58 pm
Editor’s note: This is Part II of a two-part essay; here is Part I. The Nature of Truth I argued in the previous section that Francis rejects propositional truth. On this view, the truth-status of [...]
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A postcard by the Cappucin mission in Mesopotemia of two Chaldean men from the villages surrounding the town of Mardin in South East Turkey, along the Syrian border. Chaldean Christians recognize the Pope as the head of the Universal Church. They split from the Assyrian (Nestorian) Church in the sixteenth century. Chaldean Christians are found in largest concentrations in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the United States (Detroit), Europe, and Australia. The head of the Church, the Patriarch, resides in Baghdad with the title of "the Patriarch of Babylon". He has the rank of a Cardinal in the Catholic church. Their liturgy is in Aramaic.

SAVING WESTERN CIVILIZATION THROUGH EROS

1/27/2020

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Saving Christian Civilization Through Eros
By Peter S. Rieth on Jan 26, 2020 08:00 pm
What I behold today is a Western world of “tolerance” and homosexual-inspired androgyny, so morally bankrupt and decadent that even the natural, primitive sexual appetites that make women attractive for men have been erased. It has come to this: Conservatives must now begin the restoration of civilization by promoting erotic love in order to ...
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“Christos”

Music and the Transcendental
By Sir Roger Scruton on Jan 27, 2020 03:00 pm
Wherever we are—in restaurants or in the Metro or wherever—we are overhearing music coming at us from all angles, and we are learning how to ignore it. We live in a society where, if we do not learn to ignore it, we cannot also learn to listen to it. This puts an enormous strain ...
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The Gravity of Gravity: A Quick Look at Astronomy and Its Relevance
By Andrew Seeley on Jan 27, 2020 03:00 pm
When a fascinating chaos has been observed enough to reveal patterns that allow prediction, the human mind is ready to ask, “Why?” So it is with the cosmos. Tracing the answers to this question throughout history allows us to understand the development of cosmology and its effects on moral imagination. Like most of the ...
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Natural Law and Our Constitutional Crisis

A republic, if we can keep it
Adam J. White | The Atlantic
Constitutional structure, like any structure, does not maintain itself. Each generation has to maintain its institutions and repair any damage that its predecessors inflicted or allowed. This task begins with civic education, so that Americans know how their government works and thus what to expect from their constitutional institutions.

THE PRIESTS WE NEED TO SAVE THE CHURCH & GEORGE WIEGEL TACKLES MODERN CATHOLIC REFORM

1/25/2020

The Priests We Need to Save the Church

Humanism as Realism
Joseph Priestly, School Lessons, and Liberty in Grammar

We must rediscover how Aristotle’s Rhetoric brings light into what Socrates saw as the political “cave.” Read More »

With Bright Wings: George Weigel’s “The Irony of Modern Catholic History”
By Dwight Longenecker on Jan 25, 2020 10:00 pm
The Christian Church’s ongoing struggle with modernity is unavoidable. How does a two-thousand-year-old religion, with roots even further into antiquity, adapt to a world not only technologically astonishing, but philosophically post-Christian, totally materialistic, and indifferent towards God? George Weigel answers this question in “The Irony of Modern Catholic History.” The Irony of Modern Catholic ...
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Paul Elmer More’s Nietzsche

SOLEIMANI PRAISED BY NEAR EASTERN CHRISTIANS

1/13/2020

ATHEISM IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

1/13/2020

https://www.amazon.com/Battling-Gods-Atheism-Ancient-World/dp/B016WT2IVQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Tim+Whitmarsh&qid=1578865281&s=audible&sr=1-1

Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked scepticism in ancient Greece, and heretics argued that history must be understood as a result of human action rather than divine intervention. They devised theories of the cosmos based on matter, and notions of matter based on atoms. They developed mathematical tools that could be applied to the world around them and tried to understand that world in material terms. Their scepticism left a rich legacy of literature, philosophy, and science and was defended by such great writers as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, and Lucian.

Tim Whitmarsh tells the story of the tension between orthodoxy and heresy with great panache, a story that ended—for the moment—with the imposition of Christianity on the Roman Empire in 313 CE.

ROGER SCRUTON DIES

1/13/2020

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The Swan Song of Roger Scruton: “Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption”
By Paul Krause on Jun 16, 2020 04:01 pm
In “Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption,” Sir Roger Scruton guides us—like Virgil—through the twisty cosmos of Richard Wagner and leaves us at the gates of paradise. Those who desire a treatment of Wagner’s final opera without the pollution of ideological criticism will find a wonderful breath of fresh air in Scruton’s treatment of ...
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Sir Roger Scruton: In Memoriam
By Paul Krause on Jan 12, 2020 03:36 pm
Sir Roger Scruton, the prolific British philosopher and writer, died on January 12, 2020, after a six-month battle with cancer. A renowned intellectual whose interests and commentary covered political philosophy, aesthetics, and religion, Sir Roger was more than just a man who covered many topics with penetrating insight and erudition; he was, to me, a ...
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The Last Speech: “A Thing Called Civilization”
By Roger Scruton on Jan 12, 2020 02:27 pm
On September 19, 2019, at the fourteenth annual Gala for Western Civilization, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute presented Sir Roger Scruton with the Defender of Western Civilization award. Sir Roger gave these remarks on accepting the award. He had recently been diagnosed with cancer, the disease that would bring about his death on January 12, 2020. ...
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Christian Democracy and the Future of Europe

Roger Scruton, Sentinel of the West
Learning from Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Scruton: In Memoriam
The Last Speech: "A Thing Called Civilization"
Why Beauty Matters
The Implications of the Logos for Christianity

Roger Scruton on America, the Nation-State, & the Responsibility of Intellectuals
By Tina McCormick on Feb 09, 2020 08:01 pm
It is hard to imagine how this country will recover from the hostility and political polarization that now define it without rediscovering a “pre-political loyalty," as Sir Roger Scruton called it, "towards something higher, something that is shared between all the citizens, regardless of their political beliefs and inclinations: the nation." With Roger Scruton’s passing ...
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Edmund Burke on Rights: Inherited, Not Inherent
By Owen Edwards on Jun 16, 2020 03:58 pm
On what basis are political constitutions actually formed and remain valid? Where do rights come from? Edmund Burke offers us an account different from that of many of our contemporaries. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ...
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HAYAK'S CHALLENGE: SOCIAL JUSTICE BECOMES THE COLLECTIVE; THE PAGAN ROOTS OF THE CHRISTIAN LOGOS & TWO DISTINCT REVOLUTIONS

1/11/2020

The Implications of the Logos for Christianity

F.A. Hayek & Social Justice: A Missed Opportunity and a Challenge

Rousseau’s Collectivism

The Ancient Hebrew Roots of the Christian Logos

The Pagan Roots of the Christian Logos

Two Revolutions for Freedom
Joseph Loconte

Comparative Disadvantage

HOW BEETHOVEN FIXES KANT AND THE PROBLEM OF MORAL FREEDOM, A LOOK AT ROUSSEAU'S COLLECTIVISM & DEFECTS IN US CONSTITUTION

12/30/2019

Beethoven, the Multi-Faceted Revolutionary

Further Reflections on Beethoven’s Best Work
By Michael Kurek on Feb 06, 2020 03:00 pm
The question becomes, by what criteria do we determine what is objectively the “best” in the arts? I think that "communication" is a crucially important criterion, and I propose that a transcendent reflection of God, who is the divine source of objective truth, expressed in human creativity is indeed objectively, theologically "better" than mathematical integrity ...
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Viktor Orbán, Defender of Christianity
Rousseau’s Collectivism

Kant’s Imperative
By Eva Brann on Dec 29, 2019 10:00 pm
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. I have called this lecture “Kant’s Imperative” so that I might begin by pointing up an ever-intriguing circumstance. ...
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“Poison Under Its Wings”: The Constitution and Its Defects
By John Devanny on Jan 01, 2020 10:00 pm
The plan for government that came from the Philadelphia convention was what Patrick Henry referred to as a beautiful butterfly with “poison under its wings.” The parchment barriers erected against monarchy and consolidation, he held, would only be as effective as the force backing them. The beginning of the American political order goes much ...
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WHY CARDINAL NEWMAN MATTERS: EXAMINING THE LIMITS OF POSITIVISM IN EDUCATION & LEISURE AS THE BASIS OF LABOR/CULTURE

12/24/2019

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of God
Donald DeMarco
Etienne Gilson was one of the clearest thinking philosophers of the 20th century. As a good philosopher, naturally, he fully understood the importance of reason, a power that is often downgraded or even dismissed in the modern world. In an address he gave at Harvard’s Tercentenary Celebration (1936), he made the following statement: “Realism always […]

The Counter-cultural Idea of a Christian University
by Ted McAllister
The next great Christian university will oppose the combination of modernism and cultural ideology now regnant in the academy. Read More »

Leisure the Basis of Labor
By David Deavel on Dec 25, 2019 10:00 pm
Michael Naughton’s new book, “Getting Work Right,” is a wonderful invitation to share a vision of work that goes beyond resume obsession or Thank-God-It’s-Friday attitudes. It’s an invitation to Thank God It’s Sunday and keep thanking all week long. Getting Work Right: Labor and Leisure in a Fragmented World, by Michael J. Naughton (200 ...
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SOLZHENITSYN "THE RED WHEEL" AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

12/18/2019

The Red Wheel of Revolution
by Will Morrisey
No one surpasses Solzhenitsyn in conveying a sense of what it feels to live at and near the center of this kind of vortex. Read More »

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods

Beyond the Ideological Lie: The Revolution of 1989 Thirty Years Later
Steven Hayward | Liberty Forum Discussion

A Better Guide than Reason—Or Not?
Virginia Arberty | Book Review

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods
James Matthew Wilson | Liberty Classics

THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION MADE IDENTITY POLITICS

12/8/2019

Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
By Dwight Longenecker on Dec 07, 2019 09:59 pm
Puzzled by the sudden surge of identity politics, Mary Eberstadt traces its genesis to the sexual revolution. By doing so, she addresses the “primal screams” of faceless, lonely people grabbing at an identity like a shipwrecked person clutching at flotsam. Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, by Mary Eberstadt (192 pages, ...
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Hobbes’ “Leviathan”: A Collectivist Horror
By Bradley J. Birzer on Dec 12, 2019 10:00 pm
With the loss of traditional religion as the guiding force of the Western world, following the collapse of the Medieval around 1350, politics quickly became not just a substitute, but a religion in and of itself, a proto-ideology serving as a glue for the emerging nation-states of Europe. Certainties that the Medievals had taken ...
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Prometheus Unbound: Mary Shelley’s Admonishment About Scientism
By Drew Maglio on Dec 12, 2019 10:00 pm
In the Promethean Allegory, Prometheus is both hero and villain. In one ilk, he molded humanity out of clay to aid the titans in their struggle against the gods. But Prometheus’ revolution against the divine order cost him dearly. In a similar vein, is science more and more the quest to advance human knowledge, ...
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Why America Is in Decline… and What to Do About It
The Unexamined Life

Edmund Burke and the Dignity of the Human Person

A Jeffersonian Model of Citizenship

VATICAN STATE & NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY FOR THE COLD WAR

12/7/2019

The Vatican’s Nuclear Diplomacy from the Cold War to the Present by Aaron Bateman

RUSSIAN LITERATURE & THE SUPERFLUOUS MAN

12/7/2019

A Reflection on the Resurrection of the Superfluous Man
By Miles Smith on Dec 06, 2019 09:59 pm
Russia’s nineteenth-century literary luminaries all found themselves wrestling with a particularly Romantic archetype: the Superfluous Man. Bored, confused, dissolute, yet noble and aristocratic, the Superfluous Man experiences tragedy in his reckless pursuit of passion. And I can’t help but wonder whether there is any hope for these characters—both the Russians in the novels, and ...
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THE CHALLENGE OF INTEGRATING ORTHODOX ISRAELI'S INTO SECULAR SOCIETY & DANTE'S CHALLENGE ON LEARNING TO LOVE AGAIN

12/5/2019

Who helps former ultra-Orthodox integrate into Israeli way of life?
Israelis who leave the ultra-Orthodox way of life find themselves without basic education, psychological support or career prospects.

Instead of forced enlistment, Israeli leadership must dialogue with ultra-Orthodox
Instead of demanding that the ultra-Orthodox enlist in the army — like the secular parties insisted during election campaigns — Israel’s political leadership must open a dialogue with the ultra-Orthodox leadership about academic studies and the labor market.

Learning to Love Again: Dante’s Descent in the “Inferno”
By Paul Krause on Dec 04, 2019 10:00 pm
That there is much depth to Dante’s “Inferno” is an understatement, and the poet’s descent into the abyss is perplexing at first glance. However, by invoking the muses of poetry and in being guided by Virgil, Dante tips his hand and reveals to the astute reader that the journey into—and through—hell will require the flowering ...
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The Romantic Theology of Charles Williams
By Bradley J. Birzer on Dec 04, 2019 10:00 pm
Just as we consume the Eucharist at Mass, recognizing the holiness of the act, so some marriages become profound examples and witnesses of holiness. By habit and faith, Charles Williams contended, the serious Christian begins to see all meals as a shadow of the Eucharist and all love as a shadow of Holy Matrimony. ...
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"THE RETURN OF STRONG GODS": MILITANT SECULARISM AND FAITH COLLIDE

11/17/2019

Reno assumes the alternative is between the weak loves of neo-liberalism and the strong loves of a revivified European conservativism. Read More »

The Scandal of Christmas

Return of the Small Gods?
By Dwight Longenecker on Nov 16, 2019 09:01 pm
Rusty Reno’s recent book, Return of the Strong Gods is an excellent explanation of the roots of relativism. The short version is that two world wars left Western civilization with a huge societal case of post-traumatic stress disorder. With heads in hands, the thinkers concluded that we kill one another because of dogma. We say, ...
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A Course Reversal? On R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods
By James Kalb on Dec 10, 2019 05:06 pm
Many people today, especially conservatives and Christians, find it alarming that basic human connections and loyalties keep weakening in favor of impersonal economic and administrative arrangements. The tendency has been going on for a long [...]
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The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Truth
By Joseph Pearce on Nov 16, 2019 09:00 pm
Books are liberating. Not all books, to be sure. Not the sort of books that are as bad as the fads they serve, the sort of books in which vanity vanquishes verity, and in which the passion for fashion crucifies truth. Not the sort of books that turn their readers into prisoners of the ...
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Globalization and Our National Anomie
by Nayeli RianoGlobalization has become an ineluctable reality. Technocrats and cosmopolitan politicians are abetting globalization for political influence, economic gain, and utopian delusion. We might add another incentive: A forgotten or deliberately ignored reverence for civic life. Might a hyper-focus on global advancement be contributing to a growing state of national anomie in liberal democracies worldwide? [MORE]

Tolkien & Anglo-Saxon England: Protectors of Christendom
by Bradley J. BirzerJ.R.R. Tolkien believed that the Anglo-Saxon world might offer us strength to redeem Christendom. The hero of The Lord of the Rings, after all, is an Anglo-Saxon farmer turned citizen-warrior. The myth became one of universal—rather than national—significance and import. The Christian should embrace and sanctify the most noble virtues to come out of the northern pagan mind: courage and raw will... [MORE]

Where, Then, Is Time?
by Eva Brann
If it is the case that time never makes its appearance out in the world but only motion is in evidence, then either time is not or it is in the only other venue of which I can think, inside our soul—to be internally imagined rather than externally projected. When physical time has been shown to lack all physical evidence and therefore to be scientifically void, it might still be theologically real... [MORE]

The Totalitarian Temptation in the Groves of Academe

Return of the Strong Gods

Leftism Isn’t a Religion, It’s Something Worse

The Roots of American Polarization

The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Truth

History’s Answer to Modern Despair
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
“Having trivialized the past by equating it with outmoded . . . fashions and attitudes, people today resent anyone who draws on the past in serious discussions of contemporary conditions or attempts to use the past as a standard by which to judge the present… A denial of the past, superficially progressive and optimistic, proves […]

The choice is not between a Spartan communitarianism or Brook Farm-style collectivism, and contemporary liberalism. Read More »

WHY POP MUSIC CANNOT INSPIRE ANYMORE

11/10/2019

Why Pop Music Is So Bad These Days
By Jon Henschen on Nov 07, 2019 09:59 pm
Today’s pop music is designed to sell, not inspire. Today’s pop artist is often more concerned with producing something familiar to mass audience, increasing the likelihood of commercial success. With less timbral variety, and the same combination of keyboard, drum machine, and computer software, and with only two songwriters writing much of what we hear, ...
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NIGERIA: GROUND ZERO FOR SLAUGHTER OF CHRISTIANS

11/10/2019

"Too Many to Count": The Global Persecution of Christians by Raymond Ibrahim

Algeria: Persecution of Christians Continues Unbroken by Uzay Bulut

The High Risks of Soleimani's Solution for Iraq by Amir Taheri

The Fate of Christians in the Current World by Denis MacEoin

Egypt: Christian Churches Burn "Accidentally," or Have "Terrorists Changed Operations"?by Raymond Ibrahim

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán: Europe's Solitary Defender of Persecuted Christiansby Giulio Meotti •

Another Ignored Genocide of Christians Plagues Burkina Faso by Raymond Ibrahim

Nathaniel Allen writes: Defeating Boko Haram will require a fundamental shift in how the Nigerian government has handled the insurgency. To date, policymakers in Abuja have relied on a combination of neglect, ruthlessness, and over-confidence, downplaying the scale of the problem and relying on military force to substitute for a broader political strategy. A growing acceptance within Nigeria’s armed forces and governing institutions that the insurgency is once again a rising threat provides an opportunity for policymakers to change course. – War on the Rocks

"The war against Christians: It hit a peak in the last century but it's ongoing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia," Clifford D. May, The Washington Times

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