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Heracles, Samson, and the Fatal Myth of Self-Fulfillment
Introduction
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
Introduction
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...
The Tower of Babel Has Returned—Pope Leo XIV's First Warning About AI
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“Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.”1
So opens the first encyclical of Po...
Narcissus in America: What Happens When A Society Worships Itself
Introduction
Marriage has existed since time immemorial. With it, the timeless crises of sex, tolerance, and boredom have endured. However, another factor has besieged the institution of marriage to wreck havoc on modern civilization: e...
Achilles in Vietnam: The Undoing of the American Character
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In just a few short years, the American character that coalesced during World War II was undone in Vietnam. Nowhere are these generational scars more evident than in the Vietnam veterans themselves. Sadly, their stories and...
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