Great Books Every Thoughtful Person Should Read
by Bruce Riley AshfordA list of some of the most incandescent, wide-ranging, and influential writers in Western history. Continue Reading »
Yale Loses an Inspiration
by Mark BauerleinYale’s “Introduction to Art History,” a longstanding course in a Western Civ tradition, has undergone a diversity revision. Continue Reading »
The Struggle for Western Civilization
by Mark BauerleinSamuel Gregg discusses his new book Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization. Continue Reading »
Make Dharma Great Again
by Eduardo AndinoBeing Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by rajiv malhotra harpercollins, 488 pages, $26.99 Following the Brexit referendum, The Economist wrote, “Farewell, left versus right. The contest that matters now is open against closed.” Rajiv . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic Classical Education on the Rise
by Jay BorenThe key to our school's growth is this: We proudly adhere to a distinctive mission. Continue Reading »
The Secret of the Self
by Wilfred M. McClayConsider the obituary column in your local newspaper—not the obituary of anyone famous but just an ordinary obituary of an ordinary person from an ordinary place. Consider it first as a surviving family member or friend, the one who has to gather the information for the obituary and select . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity and the West
by Wolfhart PannenbergThe importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is not simply a matter of the past. In the process of secularization Western culture did emancipate itself from its religious roots, but that emancipation was by no means complete. A . . . . Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted 913
by VariousByzantium: The Apogee by John Julius Norwich Knopf, 389 pages, $30 John Julius Norwich is a good storyteller and Byzantine history is filled with lively tales of palace intrigue, nepotism, treachery, assassinations, arranged marriages, perfidious ambassadors, ambitious generals, sieges of . . . . Continue Reading »
Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions
by S. Mark HeimWe have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal affirmation of the equal validity of all world faiths. It is argued that Christianity (and to some extent other traditions) has been infected with a virulent exclusivist virus, . . . . Continue Reading »
A Modern Jeremiad
by Jean Bethke ElshtainThe True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by christopher lasch w. w. norton, 576 pages, $25 Christopher Lasch has written a “loose, baggy monster” of a hook. He takes on nothing less than “the western human condition,” arguing determinedly and, to my mind, persuasively that the . . . . Continue Reading »
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