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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:What happens when you inherit your uncle’s underclothes - Paul JohnsonJust as the English have inspired supreme artistry in male dress, symbolised by Savile Row and Beau Brummell, so they have also contributed a dissenting movement of genteel shabbiness or grand nonconformity. Read more... What Harvard Finds Unfit to Print - Stanley KurtzIn the ivory tower today, the idea that marriage is good is apparently considered an extremist notion. Read more... What has sawing a lady in half to do with global warming? - Paul JohnsonAt this time of year, exactly 70 years ago, I was taken to my first exhibition of professional conjuring. Read more... What rhymes with ‘I was wrong’? - Barbara KayRenowned Canadian poet David Solway once embraced the received wisdom of the left-wing intelligentsia — then came 9/11. Read more... What the meek inherit - David WarrenYou wince, and turn away. It is the natural human reaction. Read more... What the temptations on the high mountain mean today - Paul JohnsonWhat are the salient evils of our time? They are two-fold. Read more... What's a Layman to do in the Brave New World - ZenitThe most profoundly threatening dystopia for the future is not the brutal totalitarianism sketched in George Orwell's novel '1984,' but the mindless, soulless authoritarianism depicted in Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' Read more... What's in It for Me? - Charles ColsonOn Monday, the House of Representatives surprised its leaders, the administration, and, most of all, the financial community by rejecting the agreed-upon financial rescue plan. Read more... What’s So Good About America - Dinesh D’SouzaBehind the physical attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was an intellectual attack — an assault not just on American foreign policy but also on the principle of freedom. We have failed so far to effectively answer the strongest version of this Islamic critique. Here is the argument that Americans should be making to people in the Islamic world. Read more... What’s So Great About Catholicism - H.W. Crocker IIIWith its divine foundation, sanction, and mission, nothing could be more glorious than the Catholic Church. But, of course, many people — even many baptized Catholics — don’t see it that way. Read more... When Psychotherapy Replaces Religion - James Davison HunterWhen it comes to the moral life of children, the vocabulary of the psychologist frames virtually all public discussion. Read more... When Tolerance Trumps Truth - Donald De MarcoWhen Christ told his disciples that his teaching provided them with a liberating truth (“You will know the truth and the truth will set you free”), he was, at the same time, offering a blueprint for a liberal education. Read more... Where in the World is the Spirit Moving? - Dwight LongeneckerNot long ago a friend of mine was lamenting the state of religion in Britain and Europe. 'The Muslims are invading' he said. 'With our declining birth rate Christian culture in the West will be dead within fifty years. Read more... Where the Church Draws the Line on Drugs - ZenitA new Church manual calls for a continued fight on drugs on all fronts. Read more... While Europe Slept - Jean Bethke ElshtainIn the great cathedrals in Europe, a few people -- usually elderly women -- can be found at worship. Everybody else is a tourist, cameras hanging around their necks, meandering through. Read more... Who has been forgotten? - David WarrenCall me the Advent grinch, but I am disappointed almost never to endure fire from the pulpit on the desecration of this season of fast. Read more... Why Is Everyone Crazy About Vampires? - Father Robert BarronYou’d have to be living under a rock not to have noticed the prevalence of vampires in today’s culture. Read more... Why Shakespeare is for all Time - Theodore DalrympleShakespeare reminds us of the line between good and evil running down the center of all human hearts. And in showing us that the line is always there, easily and disastrously crossed, Shakespeare destroys the utopian illusion that social arrangements can be made so perfect that men will no longer have to strive to be good. Read more... Why we give - Father Robert A. SiricoThis is the time of the year when almost everyone has gift-giving (if not gift-getting) on the mind. Read more... Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam - Joseph Ratzinger & Marcello PeraIt is up to the readers to decide whether our intention — to examine and reflect on the great issues of our time, including the West, Europe, Christianity, Islam, war, and bioethical questions — has achieved its goal. Whether our concerns can be addressed. And whether our suggestions deserve to be pursued. Read more... Woman of Leisure - Anthony EsolenSometimes a book puts down such deep roots in one's soul that it seems always present, providing categories whereby one views the world, even when one has not read it in many years. Read more... Would Darwin have put atheist slogans on buses? - Paul JohnsonIt is one of the tragedies of humanity that brain-power is so seldom accompanied by judgment, sceptical moderation or even common sense. Read more... You Can't Do That: When Compassion Calls For Telling The Trut - WILLIAM COLSONCarl Rogers, leader of the Human Potential Movement, spoke for both of us when he confessed to an attitude of "they're doing the best they can." Read more... Your Inner Cop - Peter KreeftThe more conscience a community has, the fewer cops it needs, and the more cops it has, the less conscience it needs to rely on. Peter Kreeft here spells out what happens when people let the government act as their moral conscience. Read more... ‘I am special, I am special. Look at me’ - Robert FulfordIf movie stars don’t suffer from narcissism when they show up to appear with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio, they’ll probably develop this condition before climbing into the limo to go home. 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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