Liberty, For What? Why Polarization is Downstream of Pluralism
E pluribus unum?
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Book Review: Inquisition by Edward Peters
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
– Joseph De Maistre
Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Men Among the Ruins: How the Feminization of Higher Education Destroyed Academia
Why feelings matter more than facts in academia.
Book Download: English Literature: A Survey and A Commentary by Brother Leo
The soul, the mind, needs food and exercise just as the body does; but the food of the mind is not bread, and its exercise is not games. It feeds on visions of truth and beauty as supplied by the master word artists in literature; its exercise is to wrestle with ideas enshrined in noble books, even as Jacob wrestled all the night with the angel; and its reward is, like Jacob’s, to receive a joyful blessing at the dawn.
Via Veritas: Why Tolkien Triumphed Where Lucas Failed
“Even if Epictetus did see the way clearly, he only told men: ‘You are on the wrong track.’ He shows us that there is another, but he does not lead us there. The right way is to want what God wants. Christ alone leads to it. Via veritas…”
– Blaise Pascal (Pensées, fragment 466)
To Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Ethnogenesis of the American Nation
“God is my first love’s duty,
To whose eternal Name
Be praise for all thy beauty,
Thy grandeur and thy fame;
But ever have I reckoned
Thine, native flag, my second.”
– Fr. Charles Constantine Pise, S.J.,
“The American Flag”
Book Review of The Sinner’s Return to God: The Prodigal Son by Fr. Michael Müller, C.S.S.R.
“I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”
– Luke 15:18-19
Book Review of They Lived the Faith: Great Lay Leaders of Modern Times by Thomas P. Neill
“I see no reason why men of the world, who from inclination have applied themselves to serious studies, should not number themselves among the defenders of the most holy of causes.” – Joseph de Maistre