Those who write the histories of the twenty-first century will, I suspect, list an address delivered at a German university on this day ten years ago as one of this century’s most important speeches.
Boethius was the one man most responsible for bequeathing classical learning to the West, to survive the Dark Ages to come, until the Medieval world should burst forth in its wonderful light.
There are at least 19 different kinds of judgment that we should distinguish.
Prudence, writes Josef Pieper is the root of all the natural virtues, and there is an obvious reason why. It is the virtue of seeing reality as it is.
Tinker Bell seems to have invaded the mindset of modern man.
One has to pity — a little — politicians obliged to react publicly to events such as those on November 13 in Paris.
If I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride.
The ethical conversation has become, in the last fifty years, extraordinarily roiled.
