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Res novae, ancient truths, and the search for meaning amid civilizational decline.
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Of Moms & Murderers: What Lindsay Clancy Reveals About Modern Society
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From the distant trials of Socrates, Jesus, and Galileo; to Nuremberg, Dread Scott, and the Salem Witch Trials; to the trials of O.J. Simpson, Saddam Hussein, and Donald Trump; a famous trial is a momentary representation o...
Catholicism’s Most Misunderstood Painting: The Calling of Saint Matthew
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All ordinary paintings are alike; each famous painting is famous in its own way. Such is the case with The Calling of Saint Matthew—a work that is widely considered to be one of the most famous and influential paintings in...
The Lonely Crowd: How Narcissism Ruined The Western Man
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There is no better way to describe America’s social character than with the following oxymoron: the lonely crowd. America is indeed a crowd—among her fifty states, several match or exceed foreign countries when comparing po...
Don't Miss Out: 7 Short Novels You Can Finish Before Summer Ends
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Nearly everyone says that they want to read more, but hardly anyone does. Why? Because reading is boring. “A colleague of mine in history,” writes Deirdre McCloskey, “said to me once that the great obstacle to being a schol...
Science Can Explain Survival. It Cannot Explain the Human Soul.
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Amid the totalitarian crisis of the 1930s, French philosopher and theologian Jacques Maritain asked a sobering question:
“Does society exist for each one of us, or does each one of us exist for society?”1
Although init...
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