The task of a liberal arts college is to be a clear alternative to the distress that accompanies the loss of the good of the intellect and the growing misery that follows the pursuit of self-gratification...
Consumers are buying a lifestyle, a way of life defined by images. In the past, capitalism exploited workers, took the fruits of their labor, but in this late phase of capitalism workers are being robbed of their very selves—they become what sells products...
Where did “Western” Civilization come from? Western Civilization cannot be found in some textbook or database. It has no website. It is not a course that you take, and then forget, like so many others...
If our new technologies, by their very structure and configuration, offer us an instant sensory awareness, then the challenge for the artist in post-modernity is to offer a spiritual vision that is no less comprehensive...
The growing naïveté, which amounts to an ignorance of the essence of European and American political theory, reflects a wondrous ignorance of human nature and statecraft...
Do we seek happiness through the relentless assertion of self, or through the willing and sacrificial denial of self in communion with a timeless moral tradition?...
Has the Constitution failed, and is it inevitable for all governments—whatever their original intentions—to decay into corruption and wanton criminality?...
By his actions, Bill Clinton is all but conceding that there is a serious conflict of interest between his foundation raking in millions that enhance the family’s prestige and sustain its travel and lifestyle, while providing its big donors with privileged access to the secretary of state...
A society that simply demands economic security through bureaucratic mechanisms, while treating businesses like ornery cows to be milked for money, is not showing compassion...
When John yelled “Wronnng” at me from his center chair of “The McLaughlin Group,” it hit with the same familiar finality I had heard, many times, from Jesuits at the front of the class at Gonzaga...
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