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by | Feb 16, 2024

A new cathedral spire has finally emerged from scaffolding nearly four years after flames engulfed Paris’s storied Notre Dame Cathedral in April 2019. Intense reconstruction efforts began immediately following the accidental blaze, which investigators attributed to either an electrical short-circuit…

by | Feb 12, 2024

If you’re at all familiar with the story of independence in South America, you likely know the name Simón Bolívar. The liberator-turned-dictator was almost single-handedly responsible for liberating the northwestern quarter of the South American continent. But Bolívar wasn’t the…

by | Jul 5, 2023

Anyone curious about what a “diversity-is-our-strength” infusion looks like has only to glance across the Atlantic at the rioting unfolding in France. Evidently, the widespread looting and destruction of property, the assault of a mayor and his family, and the…

by | Jan 20, 2023

Crowds have been flocking to the Metropolitan Opera to take in a heart-wrenching tale of religious persecution that continues into the next two weekends. Dialogues des Carmélites is one of the most well-respected operas of the 20th century. By opera…

by | Jan 13, 2023

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age By Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press, 516 pages, $32) From 1760 to 1809, British bookseller and publisher Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) hosted a weekly dinner at his London home and…

by | Oct 22, 2022

Democracy emerged in the West as a consequence of secularization. Religion lost its privileged position in human life, we embraced material science and secular philosophy, and democracy began to take hold. Religion is imperious, intolerant of answers other than its…

by | Jan 22, 2022

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…

by | Jan 9, 2022

France was in the news because the country’s top tennis player, Gaël Monfils (world rank no. 21), reached the final at Adelaide in a run-up tournament for the Australian Open, a good start for one of the most talented and…

by | May 15, 2021

It’s true. America’s troubles are due to lack of religion. And it’s not true as well. The wokists have little use for Christianity or Judaism or any other traditional religion, at least in the terms of their institutions and comprehensive…

by | May 11, 2021

There will be other commemorations of Napoleon Bonaparte down the road, on the occasion of his 250th this or that, but it is worth remembering, as Americans, that it is not necessarily a sign of pathetic nostalgia for a people…

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