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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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.” Read more... Cold Standard - Peggy NoonanVirginia Tech and the heartlessness of our media and therapy culture. Read more... Common Sense Apostle & Cigar Smoking Mystic - Dale AhlquistThere 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. Read more... Conciliating Hatred - Steven D. SmithThese 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? Read more... Consumerism: A Subtle Corroder of Virtue - Ray GuarendiConsumerism 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. Read more... Crunchy Cons Rising: An Interview with Rod Dreher - Angelo MateraRod Dreher has just published ‘Crunchy Cons’ — a manifesto that celebrates faith, family, community and nature against the forces of greed and lust. Angelo Matera spoke to him recently about his book, and why conservatism needs an overhaul. Read more... CS Lewis on “Xmas and Christmas” - Charles J. ChaputFifty years ago C.S. Lewis published an ironic little essay called, "Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus." Read more... Cults: The Threat is Real - Mary KochanJeannie Mills seemed to have beaten the odds when she defected from Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple cult before the 1978 mass murder/suicides of 911 adults and children in Jonestown, Guyana. She had the chance to reflect upon her involvement in the group. Read more... Culture of Vice - ROBERT R. REILLYIn The Ethics Aristotle wrote, "men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives." This is also true when revolutionary changes are cultural. Read more... Culture War - Rabbi Daniel LapinWe are no longer one nation under God. We are two separate nations with two distinct and incompatible moral visions. 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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