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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.

Cicero on Our Disengaged Age 

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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. 
reading a book

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. 
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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.
Classroom

Zero Trust in the Classroom 

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Doubt, suspicion, and anxiety must not outweigh love in the classroom. Zero trust has no place, but authentic relationships do.
early suffragettes

Steelman or Strawman? Carrie Gress’s Something Wicked

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Regrettably, Gress's latest book is an exercise in dispatching straw men of its own making.
antique library with old bookshelves

The Bookshelf: Movements and Clerks 

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We do well to remind ourselves, as the late Christopher Lasch did, that what we now call the “laptop class” can make itself too independent, too insulated from the buffeting winds that others must struggle against.
Bust of John Henry Newman, doctor of the Church

Newman’s Conscientious Maximalism 

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Our obligations are not limited to what human beings in positions of authority spell out for us. 
girls' basketball team

The Lady Griffins and Aiming Students Higher 

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The Academy of Classical Christian Studies’ Lady Griffins basketball team captured the attention of millions with their decision to forfeit their championship. This decision didn’t happen in a vacuum; it grew out of an education that seeks to aim students toward higher things.  
Pope Leo XIV Inauguration

Two Leos on Church and State

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The contemporary Leonine texts suggest that the Pope’s primary concern is about the downstream political consequences of religious liberty.
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The Falcon’s Children: Ross Douthat’s (Mostly) Fantastic Fantasy 

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Is this tale imperfect? Yes. But it’s one that’s worth hearing regardless. 
Israel

What Is Zionism? What Is Christian Zionism? 

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Basic decency provides more than enough grounds for Christians to oppose hateful and irrational attacks against Jews and Israel. We should treat these episodes as tests of our courage and discernment, because that’s exactly what they are. 
Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt and the Limits of Expertise 

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We do not need experts to tell us how to get our kids out of the machine.  
Christmas

Gaudeat Ecclesia, Now and Always 

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This Christmas, as we enjoy our cozy families and gifts, may we marvel in Christ’s appearance in Scripture and in our world, with all of its paradoxes.
Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge’s “Hebraic Mortar” 

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Henry Ford sought to mainstream anti-Jewish sentiment in the United States. In a 1925 address, Coolidge decisively broke with Ford’s movement. 

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