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Secular Revolution & Religious Revival: A History Lesson

by Joseph Pearce

History is full of surprises. One such surprise is the manner in which the secularist cataclysm of the French Revolution prompted a religious revival across the Channel in England... [MORE]

My Non-Woke “Solidarity Statement”

by David Deavel

One of the administrators at my school recently asked faculty to contribute a “solidarity statement,” asking us "to share how you personally will engage in the work of creating an inclusive and equitable campus community that truly values all." As a believing Catholic Christian and political conservative, I’ve been thinking about what it might involve to write a real statement that is not limited to generalities... [MORE]

Action or Reaction? Michael Warren Davis’ The Reactionary Mind

by Dwight Longenecker

In his new book, Michael Warren Davis rescues the reactionaries. With a jaunty air and the panache of all the ridiculous warriors from Cyrano de Bergerac to Don Quixote, he stands up for all that is alternative, counter-cultural, strange, spare, and delightfully luddite... [MORE]

Faith, Reason, and the Origins of Mankind

by Michael De Sapio

The question of human origins surely ranks high on the list of theological topics, touching on the deepest questions of who we are, where we came from, and where we are destined. In his new book, William Lane Craig has made an important contribution in the effort to combine faith and reason to shed some light on these great mysteries... [MORE]

Homer versus Virgil

by Joseph Pearce

To what extent are literary epics the children of their own times, expressions of their own particular zeitgeist, and to what extent are they expressions of perennial truths that transcend fads, fashions and other temporal ephemera? Considering the epics of Homer and Virgil will enable us to understand these questions and to move towards answering them... [MORE]

Dune: The Power of Attention

by Nathaniel Birzer

Part of the philosophy of Dune is that after a long and dark digital age, man must learn again to become self-reliant: to think and act as self-determined and self-reliant individuals; to be active participants in nature, not mere passive receivers of pleasure and pain. For that is the place of beasts, not men... [MORE]

The Marxist Worldview Behind the Spending Bill

by John Horvat

Government programs cannot restore broken families and shattered communities. Only a moral regeneration of non-economic values can do this. The ravages of loneliness, despair, and suicide must be addressed by filling the spiritual voids that haunt people’s lives—and not by issuing government checks... [MORE]