Liberty, For What? Why Polarization is Downstream of Pluralism
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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
Jacques de Molay
“The life offered me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret.”
– Jacques de Molay
The Fate of Phos Phokarion
“Grief everywhere, Everywhere terror, and all shapes of death.”
– Aeneid II. 490-491
Book Review of J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion by Richard L. Purtill
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Book Review: A Treatise on Perfection by Cardinal Richelieu
“For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.”
– Matthew 11:30
Men Among the Ruins: How the Feminization of Higher Education Destroyed Academia
Why feelings matter more than facts in academia.
Book Review: The Life of J.-K. Huysmans by Robert Baldick
“Lord, you gave him great talent, and he used it for your glory. You gave him great suffering, and he accepted it for your blessing…”
– Abbé Fontaine
Trobadourism: The Idolization of Romance and Its Decadent Consequences, Past and Present
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
– William Shakespeare
Postmodern Pygmalion
“‘Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland’: this is the soundest counsel. But what is this flight? How are we to gain the open sea? For Odysseus is surely a parable to us when he commands the flight from the sorceries of Circe or Calypso — not content to linger for all the pleasure offered to his eyes and all the delight of sense filling his days.
The Fatherland to us is There whence we have come, and There is The Father.”
– Plotinus