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Last 20 ArticlesProject leads to heartfelt questions - Jakki JeffsI am beginning to wonder where the heart of our great country has gone. Read more... Making History - Peggy NoonanIn appreciation of our country's founders and its greatest living historian. Read more... Long Live Haydn - Robert R. ReillyMay 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 EsolenFor 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... The Early Church: How Christians elevated culture - Anthony EsolenWhat did the Christians cherish from the pagan traditions, and what did they change? 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 ColsonA new documentary shows why we need to "stem" the tide of embryo-destructive stem-cell research. Read more... Imagine - Robert RoyalImagine, 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 HudsonEight 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 DalrympleThe 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 BallorClint 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. ZenoMany 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... Exploitative reality shows degrade us, too - Colleen Carroll CampbellThe excruciatingly public marital troubles between Jon and Kate Gosselin reached their predictable denouement Monday when the reality television stars announced their impeding divorce before an audience of 10.6 million. Read more... Learning to love bravely - Doug McManamanMy friend's attitude towards policing is an accurate image of what our attitude in the spiritual life ought to be. Read more... Thinking as a Catholic on Iran - David WarrenHow should Catholics think about Iran? And how should a Catholic think about Iran? Read more... Thinking About Moral Absolutes - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.When Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States in April of 2008, I had the chance to attend the opening ceremony at the White House South Lawn. Read more... Virtue and The Art of Living - Edward P. SriI’ll never forget the instructor’s last words: "And if you happen to fall out of your kayak, don’t try to stand up in the river." Read more... Beauty and Desecration - Roger ScrutonAt 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. Read more... Where's Obama's 'Evil Empire' Speech? - Lorne GunterIn an interview five years ago with the Weekly Standard magazine, former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky described the “brilliant moment” when he and his fellow prisoners in Siberia learned of Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech. Read more...
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