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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Barbarians Inside Britain's Gates - Theodore DalrympleThe youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would peasants in Bram Stoker's Transylvania. Read more... The Big Rock Candy Nation - Anthony EsolenAs I write, several thousand young people are squatting near Wall Street, insisting upon some kind of change or other. Read more... The bomb is just the beginning - George JonasA friend once asked George Faludy how terror worked. Read more... The Book of James - Joseph LoconteA century ago, the psychologist, philosopher, and agnostic William James delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh. His 20 addresses were published in 1902 as The Varieties of Religious Experience, which soon became one of the most widely read works on religious belief by an American. Read more... The Boston bombings and their aftermath - Archbishop Charles J. ChaputWe shouldn’t waste time being shocked or baffled by the evil in the world. It has familiar roots. It begins in the little crevices of each human heart — especially our own. Read more... The Challenge Of Secularism - Christopher DawsonIt is no accident that the introduction of universal compulsory state education has coincided in time and place with the secularization of modern culture. Read more... The Challenge of Secularism - Christopher DawsonWe are still living internally on the capital of the past and externally on the existence of a vague atmosphere of religious tolerance which has already lost its justification in contemporary secular ideology. It is a precarious situation, which cannot be expected to endure indefinitely and we ought to make the most of it while it lasts. Read more... The Church as Culture - Robert Louis WilkenIf Christ is culture, let the sidewalks be lit with fire on Easter Eve, let traffic stop for a column of Christians waving palm branches on a spring morning, let streets be blocked off as the faithful gather for a Corpus Christi procession. Then will others know that there is another city in their midst, another commonwealth, one that has its face, like the faces of angels, turned toward the face of God. Read more... The Clash - Fouad AjamiIt would have been unlike Samuel P. Huntington to say “I told you so” after 9/11. Read more... The Conservative Convert - Eric ScheskeTerse Kirk. That’s one way to describe Russell Kirk, the literary critic and father of modern conservatism. He was the author of over thirty books and hundreds of articles, the founder of two quarterlies, and a busy speaker. But he was laconic when it came to his religion. Read more... The Corrosive Power of Euphemisms - C. Ben MitchellWords are powerful tools. They can be used as a shield or a weapon. They have incited revolutions, shaped nations, and thrilled readers. They are the stuff of which most human communication is made. Nowhere is this more evident than in the latest development in human cloning and embryonic stem-cell research. Read more... The Cruelty of Hedonism - Anthony EsolenA hectic competition lies at the heart of the hedonist’s life. Read more... The Culture of Charity - Arthur C. BrooksApproximately three-quarters of Americans give their time and money to various charities, churches, and causes; the other quarter of the population does not. Why has America split into two nations: givers and non-givers? Arthur Brooks has spent years researching this trend, and even he was surprised by what he found. Read more... The danger of self-indulgence - David WarrenLet us start as grimly as possible in the present: with my conviction that things do not look very promising for our civilization. Read more... The Decline of Laughter - Roger ScrutonLaughter is not only a joy and a balm, it is the principal way we have of accepting the failings of our fellows. Read more... The Defense of the West: How to Respond to the Islamist Challenge - Roger ScrutonThe West today is involved in a protracted and violent struggle with the forces of radical Islam. This conflict is intensely difficult, both because of our enemy's dedication to his cause, and also, perhaps most of all, because of the enormous cultural shift that has occurred in Europe and America since the end of the Vietnam War. Read more... The Depressing Pew Forum Study - Father Robert BarronLet us reclaim our great heritage. Read more... The Dictatorship of Relativism - Cardinal George PellShortly before he entered the conclave in which he was elected pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger preached the homily at the pre-conclave Mass and warned against the rise of "a dictatorship of relativism". Read more... The Difference God Makes - Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.An interview with Francis Cardinal George about his new book, The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture. Read more... The End of Charity - Theodore DalrympleThat judgments in the past were harsh or unfeeling is, alas, the case. But that is a reason for refining our judgment, not for refraining from exercising it at all. Read more... The euro confronts reality - Father Raymond J. de SouzaA currency can be an act of imagination, but not a flight from reality. Read more... The Failure of Speculative Capitalism - Angelo MateraWhile the media blames good old-fashioned greed, the reasons are more complex, involving financial practices that constitute a "structure of sin." Read more... The First Freedom: Religious Liberty as the Foundation of Human Liberty - The Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.The freedom of the Church must be claimed and reclaimed by Christians in each new generation. Read more... The Forgotten Freedom - Anthony EsolenWe say that everything in our nation is political, but in a deeper sense of the word, almost nothing anymore in our nation is political, and that is the problem. Read more... The Future of Tradition - Lee HarrisAmerica has been in the midst of a culture war for some time and will probably remain so for some time longer. But culture war is not peculiar to this country. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sun May 12 2013 - 15:13:40
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