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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:History Without Christ - Donald DeMarcoBertrand Russell, one of the twentieth century's most apostolic atheists, believed that human history would have fared far better had Christ and his followers never come into being. Read more... Honor Among Thieves - James BowmanWhat ever happened to sportsmanship? Read more... How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and the Success of the West - Rodney StarkChristian faith in reason and in progress was the foundation on which Western success was achieved. Read more... How is the Church Renewed? - Pope Benedict XVI and Peter SeewaldWhat exactly is real renewal, the right kind of renewal? Read more... How to Survive as a Person in the World Wide Web - Donald DeMarcoThe modern world of electronic communications has, in effect, disembodied us. Read more... How to Win the Culture War - Peter KreeftIf you don't know that our entire civilization is in crisis, I hope you had a nice vacation on the moon. Here is a three point checklist for the culture wars. Read more... Humanity was most fragile of all - Rev. Raymond de SouzaOver the weekend the too-fragile levees that protect New Orleans were already being repaired. Years from now, we shall likely forget how fragile indeed are the things that man builds. But we shall be haunted for some time by the other news from the whirlwind, that more fragile still was our culture, our civilization, our common humanity. Read more... In Tough Times, Americans Rediscover a Forgotten Virtue - Colleen Carroll Campbell"Thrift," said the Roman philosopher Seneca, "comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse." The truth behind that age-old adage is painfully obvious to millions of Americans today. Read more... Inner Cities Need the Irish Solution - MARK GAUVREAU JUDGEBecause the Irish have been so completely assimilated into this country we frequently forget that they once had problems every bit as severe as today's blacks. Read more... Inside the strict faith of unfaith - Rex MurphyStephen Harper ended his address to the Canadian troops with what has become a signature salutation: “God bless Canada.” Read more... Intense Atheism - Paul VitzI will begin by addressing the deep personal psychology of the great — or at least the passionate and influential — atheists. Read more... Introduction: The Two Kinds of Honor - James BowmanFrom the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the twentieth century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the story of honor was inseparable from the story of mankind. Today, an acquaintance with the concept of honor is indispensable to understanding the culture of the Islamic world and its sense of grievance against the West, where honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three-quarters of a century. Read more... Is Humanism a Religion? - G.K. ChestertonThere is a certain problem or challenge to modern thought. It is the problem of whether Humanism can satisfy humanity. The question really is whether Humanism can perform all the functions of religion. Read more... Is Pornography the New Tobacco? - Mary EberstadtA curious reversal in moralizing. Read more... Is The World Falling Apart? - James V. Schall, S.J.“It is a nice day,” I said to a lady in jogging togs as she ran past me in the park. But she said that she “could not enjoy it.” “Why?” I asked. “Well, I am so upset,” she replied. “I have been watching CNN News and the world seems to be falling apart.” Later, as I was reading Aristotle with my class, it was amazing how he was able to put things into perspective. Read more... Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis - Bernard LewisBernard Lewis has often been described as the West's greatest historian and interpreter of Islam. At a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life held on April 27 in Washington, D.C., Professor Lewis, in a wide ranging discussion with an assemblage of American writers and thinkers, gives his views of current and future prospects for the West's relationship with Islam. Read more... Islam: A Primer - Roy MottahedehIn January 2002 a group of journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues. The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured Harvard historian Roy Mottahedeh, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson. Read more... It is finished - Father Raymond J. de SouzaSince the death of Father Richard John Neuhaus last Thursday, and my tribute to him published in the Post the day after, many readers have been kind enough to get in touch with me, passing on their condolences upon the death of my spiritual father and mentor. Read more... It's A Riot - Theodore DalrympleWhen the riots in England that astonished the world (but not me) broke out, I happened to be in Brazil. Read more... It's the Stupid Culture - Robert RoyalEveryone today complains about the culture. Read more... It’s Morning After in America - Kay HymowitzWith their genius for problem solving and compromise, pragmatic Americans have seen the damage that their decades-long fling with the sexual revolution and the transvaluation of traditional values wrought. And now, without giving up the real gains, they are earnestly knitting up their unraveled culture. It is a moment of tremendous promise. Read more... Janet Jackson and the Frog - Peggy NoonanHas our culture gone irredeemably to pot, or can we jump for our lives? Read more... John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism - George WeigelJohn Paul II is arguably the iconic figure of the twentieth century because his life has embodied, personally and spiritually, the human crises of our times. Read more... Joyce Appleby, Catholic Conscience, and the Supreme Court - Matthew J. FranckShould Catholic justices recuse themselves on certain cases? Read more... Judge Judy, Simon Cowell, and the Lord God - Father Robert BarronPerhaps we might consider all of the judges whom we obviously love to watch to be minor icons of the Judge in whose light we ought to live. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 17:00:08
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