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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.

The Genius of Jane Austen 

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Jane Austen novels

The Genius of Jane Austen 

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Jane Austen was an extraordinary writer of fiction, but she was also a profound teacher of human nature, the arts of life, and the way to happiness. Her novels are, as it were, about her “important nothings”: about the sport of laughter, love and friendship, and the splendid challenge of being human.    
Sailing to Byzantium

Monument of Unageing Intellect

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It is plain to this grateful reader that the tradition of the university has deeply formed Professor Hankins and Professor Guelzo into the kind of people capable of bringing to fruition the Herculean labor of love and learning that is The Golden Thread. 
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Wonder Confronts Certainty, Then and Now 

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When it comes to human beings, learning must not consist in committing a pre-packaged truth to memory, but an endless process of discovery and self-critique.
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Smartphones and the New Tribalism 

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What place smartphones have in our future is uncertain, but whatever it is, all generations should be alert to the problem.
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Christian Zionism Came Long Before Dispensationalism 

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It would be perverse to charge all fulfillment theology with antisemitism. Many reject Christian Zionism for the plausible (but unfounded) reasons described in Mattson’s piece, and many are clearly philo-Semitic. But it might not be a bad idea for some of them to ask what W. D. Davies and other theologians started asking in the 1970s: “How did Christian Europe come to hate Jews?” 
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The Virtues as the Superhabits of Human Success 

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What we need is a restoration of virtue in our land, in order to tame the strong gods and ensure that their power serves the good—so that the return to reality is marked not by domination, but by integrity, not by chaos, but by character. 
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A Philosopher for All Seasons 

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West shows us in Maritain what a Christian philosopher in our time should look like. 
Cardinal Newman

The Magisterial Minimism of John Henry Newman 

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Inconsistencies in official religious teachings are frequently only apparent. 
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby at 100 

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All forms of art are acts of creation and, on a small scale, the artist is participating in an act of creation that is ultimately an act of God, the Creator of all things.  
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The Bookshelf: Vive la Différence! Vive le Mystère! 

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The taste for mysteries has more than one cause, but a keenness to see justice done, and the balance of the world set right, takes pride of place.
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Rethinking Localism 

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Our ability to trust and the ability of others to keep promises uncorrupted make navigating social life possible.
Local library

Institutions and Influence 

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If we can’t trust our own institutions, even locally, to respond to individual and shared needs, at least some of those institutions may require rethinking. 
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TikTok Between the Body and Christ 

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Before we indulge in more time online, it is worth considering whether the images flashing on that screen are ultimately pointing us toward the humanity and healing power of Christ or a disfigured version of the kind of body a technocratic culture wishes us to have.
St. Thomas Aquinas

Celebrating Aquinas in China  

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Thomas Aquinas can be celebrated by the peoples of both oceans.
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Coercion and Religion 

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Religion needs the power of government, but not in the way some think. 
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How to Take Disaffected Young Men Seriously 

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Right-wing young men see a politics and culture that celebrates every identity but theirs, cultivates a totalitarian ideological culture that directly undermines their beliefs, desires, and life goals, and is set to leave them significantly worse off—socially, economically, culturally, spiritually—than their grandparents. Any successful attempt to reach these young men will need to seriously address these deeply rooted sentiments. 
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Israel and the Promise of Peace: Two Essays

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A pair of essays about the state of war, and of peace, in Israel
Antisemitism in the U.S.

Anti-Semitism: Grave Sin and Civic Cancer 

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Let us do our duty. Let us slam shut and then nail shut the Overton Window on anti-Semitism and thereby help give our country a new birth of freedom rightly understood.  
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WEEKEND SPECIAL: Doctor of the Church, Doctor of the University 

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A spiritual and intellectual dialogue with John Henry Newman
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Christianity and Change 

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There is no one factor that can explain our polarization, nor any one solution. But Newman can still teach us. Without speculating about what Newman would say or do in this situation, let us instead consider some key principles and arguments that Newman sought to establish in his own day, which are just as applicable today. 
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Is Our Growing Fascination with Halloween Dangerous? 

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The recent growth of the celebration of Halloween may not simply reflect nostalgia for an enchanted past. 
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Solidarity, Communion, and The City of God 

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What is the nature of human dignity? What is it to act justly towards another human being? For Augustine, the answer is that justice towards another human being is a matter of recognizing God’s image in them, and all that follows from that, the deep solidarity and communion that arises from this.
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The Bookshelf: What Is “Romantasy,” and Why Is Gen Z So into It? 

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If we can fix our society’s marriage problem, our literary taste may well improve as a result. In the meantime, we can expect spicy necromancer novels to continue to climb bestseller lists. 
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Here’s Why Church and State Must Remain Separate: A Q&A with Hunter Baker  

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I continue to believe that our best path forward is to respect one another and to avoid the constant temptation to engage in emotional and political manipulation from the left and right.

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