Our life, our home can be like Rivendell in the essentials.  But it will require something very difficult.

What sounds like a sweet childhood ditty in fact points to one of the most significant, and challenging, of issues today. 

Ideas have consequences.  Not all of them are good.

I'll start with a simple fact.  I’m angry most of the time.  

Whenever a great revolution transforms a nation there will always be dissenters, people who are unwilling or unable to give their approval to the new state of affairs

George Orwell, the writer, and Josef Pieper, the Catholic philosopher, came from very different backgrounds.  

Hannah Arendt worried about the blurring of distinctions between the real and the unreal, between truth and falsity.

Thinking about what to share today, one sentence kept coming to mind by novelist extraordinaire Evelyn Waugh. 

In the second part of the book, we will look again at the sixteen isms and learn the practical steps we can take to overcome them.