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Beauty and Desecration - Roger Scruton

At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, "beauty" would have been the answer.

Beauty and its corruptions - Roger Scruton

In an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence aesthetic education matters more today than at any previous period in history.

 


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Long Live Haydn - Robert R. Reilly

May 31 was the 200th anniversary of Franz Joseph Haydn's death in 1809 at the age of 77. Read more...

Preface: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization - Anthony Esolen

For those of us who love the West, we are in a daunting battle. The other side has the mainstream media, the Ivy League, the political classes, and a lot more money. Thankfully, on our side, we've got thousands of years of history and some pretty big guns -- with names like Aristotle, Augustine, Burke, and Eliot. Read more...

Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship - Christina Hoff Sommers

"Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors. Read more...

'Lines that divide' - Charles Colson

A new documentary shows why we need to "stem" the tide of embryo-destructive stem-cell research. Read more...

Imagine - Robert Royal

Imagine, if you will, just as a thought experiment, a nation that for two generations has been forming almost all its children in state-run schools. Read more...

The Great Philosopher Who Became Catholic - Deal Hudson

Eight years ago today, a famous American philosopher died who had lived as a Catholic the last year of his life. Read more...

Steady As She Goes - Theodore Dalrymple

The relation of language to thought has long been a philosophical puzzle, one to which no universally accepted answer has yet been given. Read more...

Gran Torino Works - Jordan Ballor

Clint Eastwood’s 2008 project Gran Torino has recently been released on DVD, and what a delight it is. Read more...

Salvation - Are You Saved? - Katrina J. Zeno

Many Catholics just don’t know what to say when someone asks them whether they are saved. Read more...

The Shifting Middle - Father James V. Schall, S.J.

In the Aristotelian tradition, virtue stands in the middle, between two extremes, a too much and a too little. Read more...


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Per "Caritas," Six Days' Notice - Whispers
This morning, the Holy See announced next Tuesday, 7 July, as the release date for B16's social encyclical "Caritas in Veritate."

Miracle in Kansas - The Wichita Eagle
The case for the sainthood of a Servant of God, Fr. Emil Kapaun, may be supported by the remarkable recovery of an injured athlete.

Veiled threats: row over Islamic dress opens bitter divisions in France - Guardian
In the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, with its busy market, fast-food joints and bargain clothes shops, Angelica Winterstein only goes out once a week – and only if she really has to.

Mexico City Policy Fallout - NCRegister
Speaking to Vatican Radio, our Latin America correspondent Alejandro Bermúdez recently outlined some of the evil consequences of President Barack Obama’s cancellation of the Mexico City Policy.

Atheist Summer Camps? - London Telegraph
An atheist worries about what will happen to children at atheist summer camps.

A Religious but Unspiritual Society - Irish Times
A historian explains some of the reasons behind child abuse by the Church in Ireland.

Back to the Dating Drawing Board - NCRegister
Gina Zaccagnini laughs at the thought of her first date. She was in high school. Her little brother had to come along to the movie.

A Different Strategy for the Hearings - NRO
Let Sotomayor talk — and get on the record what Dems don’t want explained about the law.