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Res novae, ancient truths, and the search for meaning amid civilizational decline.
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Ideas Have Consequences: How America Traded Reality for Fantasy
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Certain ideas are so overused that they’re hardly worth saying: “What goes around comes around.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “Time heals all wounds.”
However, others are so underused and seemingly obvious that they’...
God Isn't Dead: 7 Secular Arguments for Religion
Introduction
If modernism killed God, then postmodernism desecrated His corpse. Durant writes,
“The progress of science raised the authority of the test tube over that of the crosier; the mechanization of economic production suggeste...
I Finally Read The Communist Manifesto. Here's What I Found.
Introduction
Karl Marx. Many celebrate him; many condemn him. Yet few have actually read him. This is a real issue: although Marx is dead, his ideas live on as Marxism, communism, and socialism continue to influence our modern world.
F...
Heracles, Samson, and the Fatal Myth of Self-Fulfillment
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Society’s prevailing aim is no longer service, but self-fulfillment. Individual wants supersede community needs as satisfaction preempts sacrifice.
This new breed of egotism threatens to undo civilization. Can anything be...
The Paradox of Prosperity: How Postmodernism Is Threatening Our World
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A new worldview has taken the world by storm. As such, faith, objectivity, and tradition have been cast aside in favor of a new, self-serving religion. This change has been highly consequential, for even in this unprecedent...
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