The Bible, Plato, and Aristotle all agree that a proper life is ordered around the principles of greatest importance and of greatest depth. The art of cooking, writes Plato, will teach how to make dishes people would like to eat….
It is remarkably sane to make a holiday of giving thanks. The other national holidays are fine enough — honoring our founding leaders, commemorating our inception as a nation, honoring those who took up arms to protect our nation and…
God said, Let there be light, and there was light. In the very first paragraph of the Book of Books, the primordial darkness and incoherence is mastered by words, the divine speech. As last of the creatures, that speech devolves…
In one of his most moving speeches, President Ronald Reagan declared: “Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for…
Whoever makes the calls in the Biden administration has put the “Ministry of Truth” on hold. The reigning culture, the same class that brought us privatized censorship powerful enough to deplatform a sitting president, wanted to enshrine their right to…
Editor’s Note: A version of this article was published on March 26, 2021. The eight-day biblical festival of Pesach (Hebrew for Passover) begins this Friday night, April 15 (Exodus 12). It is the central family event in Judaism, the Seder…
In a foreshadowing of America’s future under coercive secularism, a Finnish politician and Finnish bishop will go on criminal trial next week for merely upholding historic Christian teaching on sexual morality. The trial is a telling measure of the erosion…
As Ronald Reagan might say, there he goes again. The “he” in this case is former President George W. Bush speechwriter Pete Wehner, once again attacking, but of course, the Trumps — specifically, this time, Don Trump Jr. Over there…
The Magi play a critical role in the Biblical account and the Judeo-Christian cultural interpretation of the Christmas story. Who were these wise men who came to play homage to the infant Jesus? Where did they come from? Were they…
Three years ago, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule published “Integration from Within” — both a review of theorist Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed and a thorough condemnation of liberalism in its own right. Such post-liberal critiques are nothing new. What…