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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.

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Marx

A Guide to the Horrified and Mystified 

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“Reason and revelation,” “God’s creation and the natural order of things,” “the biological nature of human beings,” and “Natural Law”: these are Mahoney’s lodestars and the criteria by which he judges not just ideology’s falsehood but its destructive evil. 
The Bookshelf

The Bookshelf: Don’t Immanentize the Eschaton! 

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Voegelin was capable of striking turns of phrase and bold arguments. It is easy to see what was attractive about his work for a Christian conservative.
university classroom

Only the Humanities Can Save the University from AI  

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As AI disrupts the dominant credentialing model in higher education, only a return to the university’s formative mission—rooted in the pursuit of truth—can secure its future.  
Pope Leo XIV

Centered in Christ: Reflections on Pope Leo’s First 100 Days 

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All we have seen and heard indicates that the crucified and risen Christ who sends the Spirit is the very heart of Leo’s spirituality and theology.
Catholic Church in Jerusalem

The Church, the Jews, and the Development of Doctrine 

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What is settled is that the Jewish people are beloved by God, that Catholics are spiritual Semites as they are grafted into Israel for their very existence, and that Catholics are committed to listening and learning from the Jewish people as they enjoy God’s covenantal fidelity and love. 
college lecture hall

Conservative(s) Teaching and Classroom Neutrality 

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An approach that incorporates first-person defense of beliefs actually held by the professor of record can accomplish these goals, while also demonstrating that amity and comity are desirable and achievable between those who disagree vigorously. Such an approach should be on the table in considering the reform of higher education. 
DEI

DEI Statements for Professors . . . and Plumbers 

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It is only thanks to the work behind the scenes of office assistants, dining hall workers, and plumbers that universities and other elite organizations can and do operate relatively smoothly on a day-to-day basis. It would be good to know more about what exactly they think about DEI, about diversity statements, and about the state of affairs at the institutions where they are the ones who perform what truly is invisible labor. 
Ukraine

The Catholic Church and the Real History of Ukraine 

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The Ukrainian Greek Catholic faithful, both lay and religious, are hard at work helping their country to forge a future worthy of human dignity.
Fatherhood Bookshelf

The Bookshelf: Exemplary Fathers in Classic Literature

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In honor of Fathers’ Day, a few of our contributing editors and writers share their favorite father figures from classic literature.
US Department of Education

Dismantling the Department of Education Is Not Enough

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For long-term success in protecting local control of public education, the National Education Association must go.
John Wesley

The Next Great Awakening 

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An interdenominational religious revival, like the one John Wesley led, might be what we need to heal our civil society. 
LDS Church

Moral Agency and Sustainable Liberalism: Rauch’s Proposed Liberal-Christian Alliance

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For believers eager to have a voice in a secular liberal society or simply to find peace and a home in such a society, and thus to avoid dispiriting “polarization,” Rauch’s appeal appears to resonate with a surprising power. 
Cross

The Dynamics of Exemption and Establishment 

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Thinking through the relationship of exemption to political establishment is worthwhile apart from the result in any given case, especially for those of us who are both religious believers and American citizens. 
SCOTUS

Defending Parental Rights in the Modern Age: Pierce v. Society of Sisters at 100

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The natural law account of parental rights is a substantively robust and reason-based position—one that must be defended for all Americans of all faiths and shades of belief.
Child going to school

Faith, Freedom, and Child Formation

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Parents’ authority over their children’s education is being challenged as much today as it was a century ago. Pierce remains a solid basis on which parents can insist on their proper place in the family and society. 
homemaking

The Surgeon and the Homemaker 

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How might our society change if we understood parenting as a skilled occupation?
American Protestant church

Low Church in High Places: The Fate and Future of American Protestantism

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To be sure, there remain some true-believing via media Protestants who are morally and theologically conservative and continue to attempt to strike the balance between high and low. But whatever their future, they will not be resuming their place at the commanding heights of the culture.
girl reading

The Stories Girls Need: A Response to Freya India 

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Repeated exposure to spiritually gripping, emotionally evocative stories of female formation in truth and virtue might open the eyes of some girls to the possibility of creating something better over their own horizons.
DEI

DEI in Retreat? 

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If the DEI label is losing traction and institutions are substantively evolving, what, if anything, will replace DEI?
bookshelf

The Bookshelf: Hayek’s Vision of Human Complexity 

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Hayek’s thoughts on thought itself ground his classic warning against the dangers of the temptation to control the freedom of others as they make their own way in that complex world of human action and interaction that surpasses our ability to understand. 
Vatican

Of a New Pope and New Things

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Ten things I’ve learned from Rerum Novarum after thirty years of teaching it 

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