A Massive Effort at Moral Rebuilding Is Necessary
Our cardinal institutions are sickly, incompetent, or perverse and in need of total reform. Yet what we must do, we must do. So let us begin to do it.
A Winter Eden
Something of that odd winter cheer comes through for us in our poem this week, Robert Frost’s “A Winter Eden.”
Read Something Other Than Current Politics
When you get away from the fury of your own political issues, you have a chance, born of leisure and human sympathy, to think about complex matters in a mature, even-handed, and impartial way.
The Bad Faith Arguments Against Marriage Defenders
They assume that opponents act from irrational passion, because that is what, secretly and probably unwittingly, they assume all moral judgments to be.
Advent
Our word advent comes from the Latin, and it’s made up of two parts. But what you may not realize is its connection to adventure.
Reflect on the New Sins—and the Old
If you don’t acknowledge God in your civic life you will not have a real civic life but a mockery of it.
Concord Hymn
It really was a world-changing moment, that Battle of Concord, and yet how did it come about?
Italy for Italians, America for Americans
Reasonable citizens should be able to discuss what it means to honor and to preserve our culture, and what that has to do with the whole issue of immigration.
Memory
We are subject to time, yet there is this God-given difference between us and all other creatures: we transcend time by memory.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s
‘The Village Blacksmith’
Longfellow does give us, in the final stanzas, a moral to the poem, and that perhaps is not to our contemporary tastes.
Robert Frost’s ‘After Apple Picking’
The poem is full of suggestions, questions, possibilities, and not much by way of answers.
A Hymnal for American Youth, Yesterday and Today
Remember, recover, rebuild.
American Church
America is no longer like that place where old Frenchmen gathered on a frigid Sunday morning to pray. It is, here and there, like the church with its head cut off but still regretting the operation.
Red Biden’s Humility Problem
“You shall be as gods,” says the Liar, the first great fascist garbed as a patron of liberty. Do not believe it.
A Greater Nationalism
Americans were once steeped in the histories of many nations when they understood why they loved their country and embraced others who loved their countries.
Haunter of Old Places
You can love more devotedly, you can choose a worthier object of your love, but you cannot improve upon the thing itself.
Who Wants that Castle Down?
Who profits from the disintegration of the American family? Who profits from its invasion by mass entertainment, mass media, and mass schooling, three prongs of one pitchfork?
Is America Raising a Generation of Idiots?
The principle of the idiot is self-sufficiency, self-ownership. The motive force is self-will.
Sing, America!
Must everyone cease to sing, because the village atheist is hoarse?
Our Dark Age
The Supreme Court, in retreating from its long-standing usurpation of legislative power in cultural matters, has cleared a way toward the recovery of a high and humane moral vision.