College Professorships: Conservatives Need Not Apply?

By |2015-12-09T08:19:40-06:00November 16th, 2015|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Classical Education, Education, Featured, Humanities, Literature, Truth|

“College professors are overwhelmingly liberal. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it.” This statement was not made by a conservative academic, columnist, or businessman. It was made by sometime professor and left-wing commentator Damon Linker. There is some good news in the fact of Mr. Linker’s acknowledgement of the obvious—but not much. American [...]

Elizabeth Barton: The Conscience of the King

By |2022-06-20T19:54:08-05:00November 8th, 2015|Categories: Catholicism, Dwight Longenecker, England, History, Truth|

One of the most remarkable characters of the English Revolution of the sixteenth century is Elizabeth Barton. An illiterate mystic who challenged Henry VIII to his face, and was eventually martyred for her stance, Barton influenced the course of history as a small boulder affects the flow of a mighty river. Elizabeth Barton was born [...]

Conservative Credo

By |2026-03-11T12:41:17-05:00October 12th, 2015|Categories: Barbara J. Elliott, Conservatism, Featured, Love, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, Truth|

Conservatism seeks the Truth that has emerged over time, drawing from the deep wellsprings of human experience, and builds anew on foundations that have withstood the tests of time. It fosters order and the flourishing of human beings as they live in relationship with one another. We are united in the eternal contract between the [...]

Opting Out of the Benedict Option?

By |2021-08-12T02:21:45-05:00September 20th, 2015|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Community, Faith, Featured, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Sainthood, Truth|

Of course, the real term is “The Benedict Option,” and it does not refer to our retired Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, but rather to St. Benedict of Nursia, who in the collapse of the Roman Empire fathered a way of living that kept Christian civilization alive: the monastic order. Oddly enough, like Benedict XVI, it [...]

Truth

By |2015-07-21T14:38:34-05:00July 26th, 2015|Categories: Poetry, Truth|

Flee fro the pres, and dwelle with sothfastnessë, Suffyce unto thy good, though it be smal; For hord hath hate, and climbing tikelnessë, Pres hath envye, and welë blent overal; Savour no more than thee bihovë shal; Reule thyself, that other folk canst redë; And trouthë shal delivere, it is no dredë. […]

Truth or Consequences: History, Science, and Utopia

By |2019-08-30T11:21:34-05:00June 29th, 2015|Categories: Culture, Featured, History, Mark Malvasi, Science, Truth, Western Civilization|

I have a recurrent nightmare. I dream that I never had the opportunity to teach the history of the West. I invariably awaken drenched in a cold sweat, wondering how my own intellectual development would have been stunted had I not been compelled to explain to undergraduates the accomplishments and failures, the complexities and tensions, [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful: Living in the Best of All Impossible Worlds

By |2021-04-08T14:06:54-05:00June 8th, 2015|Categories: Christianity, Featured, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce, Truth, Wisdom|

G. K. Chesterton once remarked that we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds but in the best of all impossible worlds. Such apparent optimism might seem a little glib, at best, or outrageously naïve at worst. Wouldn’t it be much more true to say that we are in the grip of vice-like [...]

Relativism and the Antichrist

By |2015-05-20T12:30:35-05:00May 10th, 2015|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Dwight Longenecker, Featured, Relativism, Truth|

When Pope Benedict warned about “the Dictatorship of Relativism,” he meant it. Literally. This was hammered home not long ago when I was speaking to a group of students about the issue of same sex marriage. I prefaced the discussion with a description of relativism saying that this non-philosophy was now the mainstream, default setting [...]

Harnessing Moral Truth in Millennials

By |2021-05-19T15:20:18-05:00March 23rd, 2015|Categories: Christopher B. Nelson, Culture, Featured, Morality, St. John's College, Truth|

Who loves employee codes of conduct? Given how sprawling and lawyerly many of them are, who can even read them? If you’re a boss who is thinking of scrapping yours and embracing one that reflects the values embodied in your company’s slogan, like Google’s “Don’t be evil” or Zappos’ “Be humble,” your employees will certainly [...]

How Much Does Credibility Matter?

By |2019-04-09T15:36:34-05:00January 24th, 2015|Categories: Foreign Affairs, National Security, Truth|

Daniel Larison on how hawks use credibility as a bludgeon: The “credibility” argument is almost exclusively used by foreign policy hawks, and they pay no attention to negative international reactions to U.S. behavior that contradict their assumptions about “credibility.” If other states react to provocative and confrontational policies by becoming more assertive in their respective [...]

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