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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.

Who’s Afraid of Classicism?  

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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.
Catholic university campus

What Does Academic Freedom Look Like at a Catholic University? 

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When a university advertises Catholic identity, it is making a promise to students and families: that faith and reason will be engaged seriously, that moral questions will be treated as real, that the human person’s complexity will not be assumed away.
Jurgen Habermas

The Power of a Silent Witness: In Memory of Jürgen Habermas 

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The ideal speech situation is not Habermas’s greatest legacy. For me, it was his rejection of that virulent form of Marxism that had infected the tradition to which he became the principal heir. That he did so with such personal dignity will stand before future generations as an example that did not require speech, but simply the power of a silent witness.   
baptism

Edgardo Mortara Should Not Have Been Taken from His Parents 

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An in-depth review of Matthew Tapie’s The Mortara Case and Thomas Aquinas’s Defense of Jewish Parental Authority
multiple personality disorder

The Bookshelf: The Return of Sybil

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If the witch crazes of recovered memory and multiple personalities are making a comeback, perhaps now aided by social contagion online, we would do well to gird ourselves with a sound understanding of psychiatry’s vulnerability to misdirection—and of the harm it can do to the souls under its care.
young man, alone, lonely

Conservatism’s Formation Crisis 

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Conservatism, if it deserves the name, cannot be merely a marketplace of grievances or a contest of personalities. It must be a training ground for judgment ordered to the good of persons, families, communities, and the political order.  
internet culture

Beware the Cul-De-Sac of Weirdness 

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The human future, if there is to be one worth having, will be normal; that is to say, it will conserve the things that have always been good for the human to have, hold, cherish, and sometimes fight for.
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Beautiful Losers  

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The job of present-day conservatives isn't to tear down, lament, and criticize. Instead we should attempt to preserve the good, while mending those things that are broken.
Cicero

Cicero on Our Disengaged Age 

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The collapse of the late Roman republic came not in an instant but over time: through a period of profound internal fracture and systemic chaos. As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American founding, we find ourselves in a similar period of civic fragmentation and disengagement.
Notre Dame campus

How Catholic Should a Catholic Institution Be? 

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The University of Notre Dame does not and ought not have the luxury of relegating moral and theological questions to the margins.
poetry

Poetry and the Politics of Aspirational Conservatism 

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More than the squabbles of party politics, conservatives ought to be concerned with defending our civilization’s way of life and the ordered liberty that sustains it.
viewpoint diversity

Responding to Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity 

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The culture of self-censorship, cancellation, and lack of exposure to viewpoints has adversely affected the university. The increasing ideological skew of the faculty is largely responsible. Universities need to address these issues to help restore their truth-seeking mission. 
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On the Divided Soul and the Joy of Loving Good Books 

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The joy of reading good books well is to better ponder and embrace them all. 
Hebrew Bible

Uncovering the Jewish Roots of American Liberty  

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The Hebrew Bible offers a “political realism” that may assist both religions, and hence Western civilization, to survive. 
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A Digital Age Babbitt

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If Sinclair Lewis were writing today, would his Babbitt look markedly different?
school choice

School Choice Is About Religious Liberty, Not Just Better Test Scores 

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America’s constitutional tradition recognizes parents as primary educators. To honor this, policymakers must safeguard private school autonomy and ensure funding follows students to their families’ chosen learning environment.
Pascal

Pierre Manent’s Challenge to Modern Atheism  

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Pascal’s theology is sublime, beautiful, and all-consuming. But it reflects the life of a celibate mystic rather than that of the statesman who must transmit Christian culture. Statesmen after all must wager. 
Bookshelf

The Bookshelf: Nostalgia Has Consequences 

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Richard Weaver’s bestselling work is his worst book. But an author with his contempt for mass democracy would probably appreciate that irony. 
Hamnet film purchased via Alamy

Hamnet and the Myth of Radical Autonomy 

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That a story that demands we define ourselves by our duties of care to each other—not by individual success—should resonate with so many is perhaps a sign that the cultural tide is quietly turning. It’s time to remember that, if our interdependence makes us vulnerable, it’s also what gives us a sense of purpose. 
inspiration for Rivendell in LOTR

Political Philology: J. R. R. Tolkien Against the Leftists 

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If I may be permitted to so step beyond my bounds and attempt to speak for what Tolkien’s advice might be, I believe his recommendation would be this: teach, read, and write poetry, for that is the first step toward viewing language as not merely a tool for communication, but a science, an art, a heritage, and a way in which man resembles God. 
Declaration of Independence

Without Virtue, Freedom Fails 

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We cannot expect to preserve a liberal democracy until each generation learns to embrace its civic responsibilities.

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