Is Classical Education Revitalizing Christian Culture?

By |2024-02-29T05:33:04-06:00February 28th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Classical Education, Featured, Timeless Essays|

The students of a classical education are part of nothing less than a civilizational renaissance, the revitalized intellectual tradition of a distinctive and vibrant Christian culture. Patrick Henry College recently brought more honor to the exciting renewal of classical education nationwide. Not only has the small liberal-arts school in Purcellville, Virginia, won nine of the [...]

The Bible as Agrarian Textbook

By |2024-02-27T20:06:17-06:00February 27th, 2024|Categories: Agrarianism, Bible, Economics, Political Economy, Ralph Ancil, Timeless Essays, Wilhelm Roepke|

Whether Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or orthodox Protestant, the Bible is the basic book of the Christian faith. One may well ask if it has anything to say about how we should live, not only about the fruits of salvation, but about what kind of government we are to have or what kind of economy? [...]

Roger Scruton on America, the Nation-State, & the Responsibility of Intellectuals

By |2024-02-26T21:20:43-06:00February 26th, 2024|Categories: Community, Nationalism, Roger Scruton, Timeless Essays|

It is hard to imagine how this country will recover from the hostility and political polarization that now define it without rediscovering a “pre-political loyalty," as Sir Roger Scruton called it, "towards something higher, something that is shared between all the citizens, regardless of their political beliefs and inclinations: the nation." With Roger Scruton’s passing [...]

Belief and the Public Square

By |2024-02-25T14:13:37-06:00February 25th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Communio, David L. Schindler, Essential, Faith, Featured, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Religion, Timeless Essays|Tags: , , , , |

Authentic human creativity offers an image of divine creativity. Its purpose-to bring about a civilization of love to give glory to God-can only be achieved when freedom is properly understood as the received gift by the Son from the Father. For David Schindler this trinitarian economy offers the only model by which any human economy, [...]

God’s Truth

By |2024-02-24T21:37:57-06:00February 24th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Classical Education, Glenn Arbery, Liberal Learning, Timeless Essays, Truth, Wyoming Catholic College|

In the transcendence of God, the truth is not a collection of dispiriting facts about our meaningless emergence from chance combinations of matter, but justice and mercy and ultimate harmony. Our approach ought to be to reveal Who God is, not to close off the way to Him. At last week’s meeting of the Philadelphia [...]

Sir Martin Gilbert and the Inklings

By |2024-02-23T18:05:16-06:00February 23rd, 2024|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Christianity, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Oxford University, Timeless Essays|

Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, knew J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the Inklings personally. At one memorable lunch, Sir Martin gave me his impressions of these great men and of the Oxford of their day. During my time at Hillsdale College—having arrived in the fall of 1999—the college hired a number [...]

“A Heart Devoted to the Welfare of Our Country”

By |2024-02-22T19:34:49-06:00February 22nd, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Constitution, John Quincy Adams, Timeless Essays|

It is a source of gratification and of encouragement to me to observe that the great result of this experiment upon the theory of human rights has, at the close of that generation by which it was formed, been crowned with success equal to the most sanguine expectations of its founders. The following is John [...]

George Washington and the “Gift of Silence”

By |2024-02-22T05:51:49-06:00February 21st, 2024|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, George Washington, Leadership, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Timeless Essays|

George Washington, the great actor, was playing his part in a great drama, not just for Americans of his day, but for you and me. Washington, the Stoic, used his “gift of silence” shrewdly, and surely it is his actions more than his words that echo down to us today. In December 2009, a letter [...]

Keeping Asian-Americans in Their Place

By |2024-02-22T05:58:52-06:00February 21st, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Education, Joseph Mussomeli, Liberalism, Politics, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

We should not try to right one historic wrong by committing a new one. After enduring over a century of white racism, now the Asian-American community must cope with a more subtle but just as sinister form of liberal racism: the harsh Orwellian reality that in modern America all minorities are equal, but some minorities [...]

The “Genuine Information”: A Warning About the Constitution

By |2024-02-19T18:36:59-06:00February 19th, 2024|Categories: American Founding, Constitution, Featured, Timeless Essays|

The time may come when it shall be the duty of a State, in order to preserve itself from the oppression of the general government, to have recourse to the sword—In which case the proposed form of government declares that the State and every of its citizens who act under its authority are guilty of [...]

Should We Celebrate Presidents’ Day, or Washington’s Birthday?

By |2024-02-18T16:09:00-06:00February 18th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Constitution, George Washington, Gleaves Whitney, Presidency, Timeless Essays|

People ask why a few of us presidential junkies would like to see Presidents’ Day changed back to Washington’s Birthday. The technical explanation has to do with a misguided law called HR 15951 that was passed in 1968 to make federal holidays less complicated. The real answer is simply this: George Washington is our greatest [...]

The Humanity of Huck Finn

By |2024-02-17T17:29:52-06:00February 17th, 2024|Categories: Books, Christine Norvell, Fiction, Literature, Mark Twain, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, Virtue, Wisdom|

Huckleberry Finn is no hero, though he does symbolize the American conscience at the time Mark Twain wrote, or at least the conscience Twain hoped for. Yes, "Huckleberry Finn" is a coming-of-age tale and a social criticism and satire, but it also asks crucial questions: Who actually changes? What type of American will change? Huckleberry [...]

Majesty in Motion: Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”

By |2024-02-16T15:06:40-06:00February 16th, 2024|Categories: Gustav Holst, Music, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

Make no bones about: Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” is conservative because of its deep appreciation for the sublime and the beautiful. Better yet, its conservatism can be found in its holistic and ordered approach to human emotions, as well as its unbridled love for mystery and transcendent revelation. Considering that it was influenced by the [...]

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