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Education & Culture

The fourth pillar, education and culture, is built upon the recognition of two essential realities. First, the Western intellectual tradition requires a dedication to and desire for truth. Second, education takes place not only within colleges and universities but within our broader culture, whose institutions and practices form us as whole persons.

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Disability at the Elites 

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What counts as serious? At what point does difficulty signal a disability? Much of that is up to the disabled one, whose lived experience is decisive.   
in God's image

The Imago Dei as History: A Review of Tomer Persico’s In God’s Image

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Despite the drawbacks of his approach and the unfortunate flaws in execution, Persico succeeds in showing that history is not a never-ending succession of contingent self-descriptions. It is one ultimately constituted by our questioning search for God who, as Abraham Joshua Heschel reminds us, is always himself “searching for man.”  
American constitutionalism

The Forgotten Foundations of Constitutional Law 

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Long before the separation of powers and judicial review were given written form, Greek philosophy, Roman law, Christian theology, and the medieval doctrine of paired jurisdictions laid the deeper architecture of constitutional government.  
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton: Philosophical Christian and Scourge of Nihilism Par Excellence 

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Rather than consign Scruton to the camp of the nihilists, I think it is more just to be grateful for his efforts to liberate and defend the soul and to fight so courageously against the ubiquitous “culture of repudiation.” 
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The Seminar and the Recovery of Civil Discourse 

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The seminar cannot, by itself, heal our public life. No educational form can bear that burden alone. But if we want a society capable of civil disagreement, we will need to create and sustain places where we can safely learn it.
Jefferson

Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Fight for Power in America 

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Taken as a whole, Rosen’s book offers a learned and sober account of the relevance of Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s principles to America’s past, present, and possible future. 
Pride and Prejudice - Mr Darcy

Gen Z and Men Who Yearn 

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For a generation marked by a noticeable gender split on political beliefs as well as by ever declining marriage rates, it would seem that young women still retain a desire for a specific vision of manhood. But what exactly is that vision?  
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Pessimism Abroad 

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The broad acceptance by self-described conservatives of casual war, initiated without the approval of the clear constitutional authority of Congress, is in sharp contrast to the caution and prudence at the heart of the conservative disposition.
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Games Gone Wild: How Metrics and Gamification Distort Reality and Capture Values 

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Games might just be one way to shake us free from the shackles of metrics and reclaim the human goods that deserve much more than a number. 
Eucharist

Against Excarnation 

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The immersive world flees embodiment and death. It embraces excarnation. But absent Incarnation, the world languishes and grows old, bereft of Eucharist. 
Blaise Pascal

Betting on God 

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Atheism is at least as much an act of faith as theism is. 
Socrates

The History of Education in Six Words 

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In recent decades, many have committed themselves to the recovery and practice of classical education. It has until recently been a close-knit affair, but in the last half decade the growth and success of the movement has prompted those outside to ask those inside what, precisely, the thing is.
Fork in the road

Nietzsche, Jesus, and the Task of Being Human 

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Both Jesus and Nietzsche announce in the same sort of bold terms their own visions of life and death; prosperity and adversity. They set before us two paths to consider: one leading toward the flourishing life and one leading toward death. One toward liberation and one into oppression. Which path will we choose? 
MAGA rally

What’s Behind the Making of the MAGA New Right? 

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Field’s account is eye-opening. At the same time, as a professed “liberal,” she exhibits elements of excessive partisanship that weaken her argument. 
Sistine Chapel

Catholic Converts, Then and Now 

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While conversion may involve a love of beauty, a hunger for doctrinal security, the frisson of transgression, or a desire for the forgiveness of sins, it is ultimately a deep mystery of grace and therefore transcends our understanding.
American frontier

The Bookshelf: The Frontier on Page and Screen 

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As our country marks its 250th birthday, and as we look to colonize an extraterrestrial orb, the western-become-science fiction appears to be on the way to becoming fact.
Shakespeare

The Bard for the Dance Between the Sexes 

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Marriage and family are among the basic goods of the good life, of flourishing, of delights. Shakespeare is cheering us on. May we take heart and enter the dance. 
university students

What Can Be Done about the Universities? 

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What are the options for scholars or funders committed to encouraging more bright students and thus improving our university system?    
John Witherspoon

John Witherspoon and the Spirit of 1776 

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Few Christians in the eighteenth century wore as many vocational hats, and accomplished as much in so many different fields, as John Witherspoon. The question is whether all these hats held together. I think they did, perhaps just barely, but they did. And I think they tell us something important about the founding of this country and the spirit of 1776. 
chaos and disllusionment

On Dignity and Desecration 

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The decisive question for this and every age, Trueman argues, is Who and what is Man?
The Parthenon

Who’s Afraid of Classicism?  

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Padilla Peralta wants something, but the way he’s attempting to get it could potentially cost him, and all of us in academia, what little we already have.
gender and sexuality

Is C. S. Lewis’s Theory of Gender and Sexuality Worth Investigating? 

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Joshua Herring offers a refreshing break from the mundane, a sort of punk rock alternative to gender orthodoxy. He reminds us again that, even as Lewis championed tradition and order, he refused to be conventional. 
Passover Seder

Reflections on Passover

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If Israelis see themselves as simply one more national identity among others, then the redemption will have been but a beautiful mirage in our long wanderings in the desert. And so, as Passover comes around again, we will read again the same story of our origin, and we will again remind ourselves that we are always still in Egypt.  
classical Christian school students

Why Classical Christian Education Will Save This Country  

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If God saves this nation from utter ruin, He surely will have used the young men and women being produced by classical Christian schools in this land. For they will have the intellectual firepower and strength of character to reform this nation both politically and socially.

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