On June 17, the Thomistic Institute hosted Dr. Andrew Abela at the Catholic University of America (CUA) for a lecture on virtue. Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and an Ordinary Professor of Marketing at…
American poets pioneered free-form verse. Though Walt Whitman did write sometimes in traditional rhyme and meter, he is most famous for his stunning free-form poetry. It was controversial not only for its form but for his candor about the natural…
On May 28, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom, becoming the first state to do so. Gov. Jeff Landry signed the legislation last Wednesday, saying, “[I]f you want…
It is once again “Pride Month,” that special season set aside by leftists to worship sexual sin, degeneracy, debauchery, and depravity. “Pride Month” is, in many ways, the leftist’s holy season, the leftist’s diabolical inversion of such truly holy seasons…
The Lies of Our Time By Anthony Esolen (Sophia Institute Press, 224 pages, $19) Catholic scholar Anthony Esolen refutes the lie that there is no God and disproves seven other popular falsehoods widely disseminated by today’s progressive ideology in his…
Recently in my humanities class at Thales College, we read selections from Pascal’s Pensées, including that famous and mysterious assertion of his that the heart has its reasons whereof the head knows not. I explained to the students that by…
I was a freshman in college in the Boston area in the spring of 1970, and a solar eclipse was coming to Nantucket Island. A bunch of us guys piled into my friend George’s beat-up Plymouth convertible early in the…
Editor’s Note: When asked why, after thousands of years and millions of words, he felt that the world needed still another book arguing the case for God’s existence, Evan Sayet said: I wanted to write a book for the lay-reader…
The Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California, is astonishing. From the outside, it appears as though a spaceship decided to land on the banks of Lake Merritt, while the interior reminds the visitor of an upside-down boat. Maple-stained…
