Regis Nicoll
In the wake of the recent Florida school shooting, a chorus of
well-meaning folks is demanding, “Enough—it’s time to do something!” As
usual that “something” includes tougher gun controls and universal
background checks—technocratic “solutions” that are ineffective at best
and detrimental at worst. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s epic novel, The Idiot, a
well-meaning prince is driven […]
Clifford Staples
The reality of joy provides, I think, the most obvious refutation of the
ideology of materialism—the attempt to reduce human beings and human
lives to the body, to matter and its effects. For joy is proper not to
the body, but to the spirit. It is the soul that is joyful or joyless,
not the […]
Sean Fitzpatrick
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I
go into the other room and read a book. ∼ Groucho Marx The affair is
not over yet. Though some affairs must end, others must go on. Yes,
though civilization is uncivilized, though truth is relative, though
ugly is beautiful, though God is […]
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