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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:America is Splitting Apart - RABBI DANIEL LAPINTwo powerful ideas are competing for the soul of America and we must not remain oblivious to this, our biggest national problem. We are two nations separated by incompatible moral visions. Read more... American Losing its Sense of Self - GEORGIE ANNE GEYERWith tiresome regularity, every few months some group comes forward to reiterate that America is losing its history. Read more... An echoing silence in his wake - Peter KavanaghThe death of Neil Postman this week, at age 72, brings a certain quiet into public discourse. A literate critic, a conscientious objector, a naysayer to unbridled development is silent. As well, a great teacher, a wonderfully clear writer and a very nice and at times self-mocking man is dead. Read more... An Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Alexander SolzhenitsynIn the course of his research for "Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile" Joseph Pearce traveled to Moscow to interview the Nobel Prize winning author. We are pleased to be able to publish this interview in an abridged form. Read more... An Ode to Ceremony - Peggy NoonanThe first instant message of 2007 came up on my screen just after midnight. It said, "Noony there is much love in the world." Read more... An “Apostate” from Itself: The Lost Europe of Pope Benedict - Sandro MagisterEven before its separation from God, Joseph Ratzinger sees the old continent withdrawing from itself, from “its very identity.” Fifty years after the Treaty of Rome, the most critical assessment is that of the pope. Here it is. Read more... Architects of the Culture of Death: Introduction - Donald De Marco & Benjamin WikerEvery building has an architect, someone who conceives the image of the edifice before it is built. Read more... Are "Values" the Same as Virtues? - IAIN T. BENSONIn our local paper recently, a church leader pointed out that the reason some young families are returning to church is that "they want some help in fostering values for their children." Read more... Are the handshake and cheek-peck on their way out? - Paul JohnsonHandshaking was not quotidian until modern times, and it usually had a definite significance, such as the sealing of a business agreement or bargain. It was a metaphor. Read more... Awakening at Littleton - J. BOTTUMThe praying crowds seemed to have no special desire to hear politicians come to town and demand gun control, or television commentators denounce pornography on the Internet and violence in popular music and the failure of the public schools, or Hillary Clinton call from the White House for increased government spending on counselors and therapists to help children solve their problems "with words instead of weapons." The mourners wanted instead to hear the story of teenage girls with guns to their heads being asked to deny the Lord. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 17-Nov-2009 - 18:10:32
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