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quoting Peter Berkowitz via ArkansasOnline John Stuart Mill, a liberal in the old and better sense of the word, once tried to explain the difference between what too many of today's upwardly mobile confuse with an education and the real thing. An educated man or woman is someone who does more than climb on the career treadmill and follow it to the heights of power, influence and wealth.  A Turning Point in History William Kilpatrick I dare say that most people who have read history would like to think that if they had been present at some pivotal point in history, they would have chosen the right side—with the Allies and against the Axis, with Wilberforce and against the slave traders, with the Romans and against the child-sacrificing Carthaginians. If […]Read More A Primer on Communism for Fellow Traveler Bishop Sorondo From the archives: The rise and fall and rise again of socialism
Karlyn Bowman and Joseph Kosten | AEIdeas Today, despite the reality in places such as Venezuela, the term socialism is in vogue again. Capitalism isn’t perfect, but it is far superior to socialism, which has never delivered on its promises and left millions in terrible circumstances.  Does India’s oldest political dynasty face oblivion? In a new AEI “In 60 Seconds” video, Sadanand Dhume describes how the defeat of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in the southern Indian state of Karnataka could be a sign that this is possible. Watch the video here.
 
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The New Atlantis The modern world is sometimes called disenchanted, denuded of magic, because science has annihilated the invisible homeland of the spirits, where angels, demons, and God himself were believed to dwell. But Richard Feynman spoke unabashedly of the wonders and miracles to be found in nature as modern science describes it. Read More (See also Mr. Valiunas’s piece for the Weekly Standardexplaining that physics was “glorious play” for Feynman.)  Analysis: Benedict XVI’s unpublished letter—God is key to understanding human rights By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on May 14, 2018 03:39 pm The final question, for Benedict XVI, is always God. Can a state be built without God? And how much can the state involve itself in [...] Read in browser » Cardinal Eijk, Pope Francis, and problems of governanceBy Christopher R. Altieri The basic dynamic of this pontificate is quite clear, and it leaves far too much unclear. [...] Read in browser » HOW TO MAKE A CARING AND CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF POPE FRANCIS By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms The Federalist A new collection of essays offers up illuminating and respectful critiques of Pope Francis’s attitudes toward capitalism. Read More The Suicide of the West: A Tale of Two Miracles
John Horvat II “There is no God in this book.” Thus reads the provocative first sentence of Jonah Goldberg’s latest release, The Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy. This declaration is perhaps an unintended summary of the book about the crisis in the West. From it, […]Read More  Notre Dame To Establish New American Home For Solzhenitsyn Research
mentioning Michael S. Bernstam via Notre Dame News In 2018 — the centenary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s birth and the 40th anniversary of his prophetic Harvard commencement address — the University of Notre Dame will launch several initiatives connected to the work of this novelist, critic of Communism and 1970 Nobel laureate for literature. Through his writing on the system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn brought worldwide awareness to the devastating core of totalitarianism  The British Way of War – Balancing Fire and Manoeuvre for Warfighting
From The Wavell Room: “To paraphrase a famous philosopher, “opinions about tactics are like arseholes… everyone has one.”
May 1968: the Forever Protest
Fifty years after what Parisians call “the events,” a participant reflects on the French penchant for revolution.  THE LURE OF OUTSIDERISMBy EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin
National Review Online Across society, people with roles to play inside institutions instead see those institutions as platforms for them to perform on, and the performance they offer up is generally a morality play about their own marginalization. As a result, too often no one claims ownership of the institutions of our society, and so no one accepts responsibility for them. Read More |
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