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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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The Eucharist

A Quiet Revolution: Restoring the Sacred in Everyday Life 

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In a culture that has forgotten the sacred, to see with the eyes of moral imagination is a quiet revolution. And it is one my generation desperately needs. 
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The Aimless Generation 

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My generation needs help discerning what the good life truly is.
lonely kid staring lifelessly at a phone screen

What I Wish My Elders Knew 

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I wish my elders knew that, in the face of what seems to be an increasingly frightening technocratic reality, we want to live free from deceit and as true humans. 
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The Bookshelf: On the Necessity and Pitfalls of Anachronisms 

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I have been strongly drawn to pick up several recent books of history and historiography that tackle anachronisms and reifications, because such clarifying works can keep us from making facile conclusions about the past—and about its effect on the present.
reading CS Lewis

A Tale of Two Jacks: C. S. Lewis and the Jews

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Lewis is needed, now more than ever, to help men and women of faith move “further up and further in.” Jews will be much better off for the journey with him. 
Vatican conclave

The Social Dynamics of Papal Elections 

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The Holy Spirit is still reliably and certainly at work in aiding the selection of the successor to the Chair of Saint Peter. That the process of getting there often leans on friendships, acquaintances, impressions, hope, and trust should not concern us. We’re human, after all. It couldn’t be otherwise. 
history

Journeys of the Mind: Peter Brown and the Excitement of History

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Many of us find it difficult to be forced to revise our assumptions and change our views, but for Brown, it seems to be one of the great joys in life.
Karl Marx

Disruption and Despair: The Dark Logic of Critical Marxism 

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Carl Trueman has delivered an invaluable explanation of Marxist critical theory, and of why it resonates with so many in our troubled times. 
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Eddington and the Fracturing of American Life 

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One of the film’s deeper provocations is a question we should all ask ourselves: How much time do we spend online? How much of our political outrage is merely performance—anger stoked by algorithms and designed more to entertain than to inform? How often do we confuse the trivial with the profound, devoting our attention to surface-level controversies while neglecting the slow, difficult pursuit of real knowledge? 
slaying the centaur of the enlightenment

Slaying the Centaur of “the Enlightenment” 

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Interpreting the times requires a genuine historical sense as opposed to an unnatural amalgamation of philosophy and history exhibited in the modernist and traditionalist genealogies. This requires us to rediscover the Age of Enlightenment on its own terms. 
Religion and culture

Religion, the Basis of Culture 

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Culture, enriched by religion, is the genesis of historical epochs that would not exist without cultured societies. To that end, we can only hope that culture can continue to steer societies away from the desacralized “way of death” toward the sacralized “way of life.”   
science education

The Myths in our Midst: On the Teaching of the History of Science and Religion in K–12 

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Teachers are doing the best that they can. At the same time, I want to be clear that the conflict thesis is about as out of step with our current historical knowledge as scientific creationism is with contemporary biology. Continuing to teach its myths as fact is educational malpractice.
Beethoven

A Catholic Beethoven? 

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Whether Beethoven ought to be understood as a Catholic composer is no longer the difficult question, but how and when he is Catholic in his music will, I suspect, frame many discussions to come.
school choice

Why Is School Choice So Controversial? 

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Whether state and federal governments will support school choice remains to be seen; there seems to be considerable political pressure in both directions. But on the social level, while we may continue to criticize each other’s school choices, increasing numbers of families seem unwilling to bypass choice.
reading for pleasure

The Bookshelf: How Do We Read? Why Do We Read? 

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Every age has its distractions, and its temptations for a shortcut. But if we are to understand ourselves and our predicament, we have the same resources our predecessors had. We have books to read. We will grow or shrink as human beings according to our willingness to read them. 
UNC Chapel Hill/The University

Colleges Get Their Comeuppance . . . and Then Some 

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While Trump’s ham-fisted assault on higher ed was justified, that doesn’t mean his tactics are—or that this will end well. 
patriotism

Love Your Fellow Countrymen 

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Yes, patriotism can be as simple as flying the flag or even reciting the Declaration of Independence on Fourth of July. But perhaps the greatest act of patriotism is something we can do every day: start to initiate or rekindle friendships with people with whom we disagree.
career

For a Thriving Career, Focus on Vocation First 

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Our duties of care to others place limitations and constraints on our choice of career. But these constraints are, in fact, the path to real freedom. 
Christian Reformed Church in North America

Living in a Divided House? 

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The aftershocks of the sexual revolution continue to play out not only on the legal and political planes but in churches, schools, and charities. For American Protestants in particular, debates about what counts as authority and what faithfulness means for human sexuality are as unavoidable as they are important.  
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. 

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