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Wilfred M. McClay

Wilfred McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair of Classical History and Western Civilization, and Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America and Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story.

Christmas carolers

Keep Satan in Christmas

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The experience of hearing and singing and sharing these familiar carols year after year is like the best experience of liturgy, in its combination of familiarity and fresh moments of discovery, when universally known words that have for years rolled across one’s lips in rote repetition suddenly blaze forth with meaning, vividly and achingly true.
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What Do We Mean by Liberal Education?

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“We shall not cease from exploration,” wrote T. S. Eliot in “Little Gidding,” “And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” Such is the task of a liberal education, rightly understood. It is a liberating exploration that results not in being permanently uprooted and alienated but in being more fully at home in the world that we already inhabit—and more fully able to enhance it, beautify it, ennoble it, and sustain it.

Remembering Fr. Richard John Neuhaus

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Fr. Richard John Neuhaus got to the central question facing us: Is it true that postmodern liberal societies are incapable of sustaining the religious values without which they could not have been born, and without which they cannot long function? Neuhaus was unwilling to surrender to that proposition. Neither should we be.
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Memorializing September 11th

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What makes September 11th worthy of public memorializing is that it was not only an event in the lives of these individuals and their families; it was an event in the life of the American nation, an attack aimed at the American nation.
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