Family-State-Self: The Classical Triumvirate

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Making the World Safe for Theocracy? by Joseph Mussomeli In 1917 an American president, overwhelmingly arrogant and sure of his understanding of the world, foolishly entangled us in World War I and launched a great crusade to make the world safe for democracy. In so doing he unwittingly helped make the world safe for fascism and communism, the totalitarian ideologies of that time. We can only hope that our current president will not now, in his efforts to make the world safe from terrorism, instead make the world safe for Wahhabism, the last remaining totalitarianism of our time... [MORE] Family-State-Self: The Classical Triumvirate by Jake Sommer History remembers Hannibal and Scipio Africanus, not because they were unique in their motivations, but because they were the absolute embodiment of the ethos of their time and place. This ethos bound family and State together because there was no reason to separate them. Theirs was an ethos of glory (gloria) and worth (dignitas); theirs was an era of citizen-State symbiosis... [MORE] The Story of Each of Us by Bradley Birzer The chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis…. We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendor. And in moments of exaltation we may call on all created things to join in our chorus, speaking on their behalf…all mountains and hills, all orchards and forests, all things that creep and birds on the wing... [MORE] Classical Education: Renewing Christian Civilization by Andrew Seeley The number of those attracted by the renewal of classical education is growing, as parents confronting the spiritual wasteland of contemporary education flock to schools producing faithful, intelligent, joyful students devoted to the true, the good, and the beautiful, and energized to proclaim them to Church and world... [MORE] Donald Trump and the Future of Conservatism by Donald Devine One of the most important lessons of Mr. Trump’s success is that classically liberal rhetoric and positions were not very important to voters. It turned out that they wanted a candidate who promised to help, not one who knew his Hayek. The institutional advantages that the liberal strand of conservatism enjoys are thus the mirror image of  its political weakness. It excels in producing journal articles, legal briefs, and business plans, but struggles to win popular support... [MORE] Is Standardized Testing Good for Education? The Sacred Music of Igor Stravinsky Word Made Flesh: Death Comes Alive in New York City In Honor of Russell Kirk Leo Strauss and the American Right Why Do They Want to Tear Down Our History? Benjamin Franklin on "The Morals of Chess" Conservatism: The Road to the Future The Modern Composer Who Turned Against the Avant-Garde "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "Delicate Cluster"