The dazzling accomplishments of Western science and modern capitalism have made us vastly richer with an unparalleled degree of personal and political liberty, yet the moral and cultural achievements of European civilization — the very achievements that underwrite our prosperity and give meaning and purpose to our liberty — are everywhere under attack.
The crucial issue and the book's great gift is Defoe's account of how a civilization is born. What transforms chaos into cosmos, survivalism into society, is obedience to God.
James Hitchcock traces the significance and influence of this movement, the thought and contributions of its major figures, and the reasons for its eventual decline.
Public education in America is supposed to mean a morally neutral education, yet in literature class...
When a true genius is born, nothing in the family or its circumstances allows us to predict the new arrival.
Almost from the moment Jacques Maritain introduced himself to Raissa Oumansov they became inseparable.
The most powerful, the most imaginative, the most startling, and the most unforgettable refutation of Calvinism in America is found in Herman Melville's classic, Moby-Dick.
Considering all the dangers and obstacles they faced in those days, it is astonishing to see how many books our Catholic authors managed to print.
It is impossible within a short space to take issue with all the mistakes made by John Cornwell in his new book, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII.
In his novels, Dostoevsky brings out the truth that those who "kill" God also kill man and that man without God cannot remain free.
