Those who were once called atheists are now the most reliable defenders not of the gods but of the good reasons for this regime of ordered liberty. Such people are the best citizens not despite but because their loyalty to the civitas is qualified by a higher loyalty. . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite social fluctuation, capitalism remains vital and . . . . Continue Reading »
Our generation's gender philosophy has harmed men, women, and their . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning, early, I wakened to a knocking at the pane—an apple bough, fruit-laden, stirred by wind—and rose to the morning’s clear gift. Outdoors in sunlight, bending to the kind of labor that gives back more than it costs, I mowed the grass and planted . . . . Continue Reading »
The appearance of perfection: Chiaroscuro come to an August day Wafted by van Rijn. Against the waving sky is the great tree Icon for what, I do not wish to know. Icon for what I do not wish to know. What I cannot defeat I will to learn to meet. Measure with level gaze . . . . Continue Reading »
Old people can’t write poetry. Only those who think and live and feel and praise and swear and fight and love and give birth to babies can give birth to poems. Not old people. No dear old lady living in retirement with a shawl around her shoulders, living among . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Kirk rejects modernity in favor of an unpalatable . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope John Paul II's Centesimus annus affirms the cultural and its religious . . . . Continue Reading »
The Presbyterian Church rejects the postmodern, relativist findings of its Task Force on Human . . . . Continue Reading »
Just when the Supreme Court is beginning to reconsider “affirmative action” plans that provide preferences on the basis of race, the Secretary of Education, Lamar Alexander, has decided, at least pending further review, to throw his weight behind “minority” scholarships that discriminatorily . . . . Continue Reading »
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