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Christopher Dawson on Technology and the Demise of Liberalism - RUSSELL HITTINGER

I must admit that in previous readings of Dawson's work, I was not persuaded by the critical, if not apocalyptic remarks he made about technology.  Email This Article

Christopher Dawson: A View from the Social Sciences - RUSSELL HITINGER

Christopher Dawson's theory of education will go nowhere today. First, it focuses upon Christian culture as being the specific backbone of the West.  Email This Article

Church's Freedom in U.S. Threatened, Says Cardinal George - Zenit

Chicago's archbishop warned that the freedom of the Church in the United States "is now threatened by movements within" and "by government and groups outside."  Email This Article

Civilization in Crisis - Christopher Dawson

We have become accustomed to take the secular character of modern civilization for granted. We have most of us never known anything else and consequently we are apt to think that this is a natural and normal state of things. Actually of course this state of things is far from being normal.  Email This Article

Civilization Without Religion? - Russell Kirk

What ails modern civilization? Fundamentally, our society's affliction is the decay of religious belief.  Email This Article

Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western Culture - Roger Kimball

“From Dawn to Decadence”, Mr. Barzun’s overview of the last five-hundred years of Western cultural history, is a magnificent summa of his concerns as a thinker and historian. It synthesizes as well as summarizes a long lifetime’s reflection about the fate of those distinctive energies that define Western culture: “the great achievements and the sorry failures of our half millennium.”  Email This Article

Cold Standard - Peggy Noonan

Virginia Tech and the heartlessness of our media and therapy culture.  Email This Article

Common Sense Apostle & Cigar Smoking Mystic - Dale Ahlquist

There comes a time in the life of any artist, any writer or poet, when he reaches the end of his abilities, when he finds himself wrestling all night with an angel. It is the moment when he tries to think the thought which thought cannot think, to visualize the invisible and describe the indescribable.  Email This Article

Conciliating Hatred - Steven D. Smith

These days, if you announce that the Supreme Court is doing politics rather than law you will provoke more yawns than protests. But what sort of politics is the Court doing?  Email This Article

Consumerism: A Subtle Corroder of Virtue - Ray Guarendi

Consumerism seems to me to be the Number 1 corporate sin of Christians; it's the sin that affects the most of us the most. We are simply so deep into it we don't see it anymore. Our desire for stuff supersedes everything. We are distracted, owned, tempted and seduced by it.  Email This Article


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