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Time for a New Constitutional Convention? by Bruce Frohnen Concern over a possible Clinton Presidency appears to have added further motivation to people who for some time have been calling for a new Convention of the States. But is a second Constitutional Convention a good idea?... Why Read Old (Pagan) Books? by Jason Baxter The student of old, pagan books dives into those bizarre, remote, and distant texts, so far away from our times, to see what is precious within them, to see if they have some priceless treasure which we will have just enough time to pry loose and take back up with us to our own banal age...  Edmund Burke Against the Antagonist World by Bradley Birzer Once a generation succeeds in separating itself from past and future, it harms not just civilization but the very dignity of man. The individual man, unanchored, “would become little better than the flies of summer”... The Copernican Revolution: The Defining Event of Modernity by George Stanciu The Copernican Revolution elevated the scientist above the stars, planets, and Earth to a position of the highest being in the cosmos... The Power of Pregnant Speeches by Eva Brann Effective speech says more than the ear hears at the moment, so that the soul comes away ready to recollect and ponder, and the public world has become no longer a space of distances but a place of convergence...  Rediscovering Sacred Music with the Youth of Today by Peter Kwasniewski It is more important than ever to educate a new generation in the art of noble music and, in particular, the magnificent treasury of sacred music that belongs to us... Becoming Children of Modernity Is Secularism the Answer to the Islamization of Europe? The Horrific Hedonism of Halloween Abandoning Virtue, Abandoning Human Nature Litany for the Feast of All Souls The “Disease” of Modernity: Both Cause and Cure The Man Who Saved the Papers of St. John of the Cross The German Destiny in European Affairs Dark Satanic Mills of Mis-Education: Some Proposals for Reform   “Two Ghosts Converse”   Support The Imaginative Conservative