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Most men’s empire-building energies are confined to dreaming about the glories of history and imitating them through a game on a screen.| Intellectual Takeout
Most men’s empire-building energies are confined to dreaming about the glories of history and imitating them through a game on a screen.| Intellectual Takeout
I recently had the fun of participating in a choral performance premiering a new oratorio on the life of John Newton, the slave-trader turned Christian minister and writer of the beloved hymn, “Amazing Grace.” One never knows how something new will be received, but when the audience leapt to its feet in a wave at| Intellectual Takeout
“Does your mom let you wear jeans to church?” So spoke a family friend who was babysitting me and my siblings many years ago when our parents were away for the weekend. I had come downstairs that Sunday morning wearing jeans, a sweater, and a scarf. “Yes,” I said without hesitation. I thought her question| Intellectual Takeout
It’s never easy to admit when you’re wrong – especially when it means standing up to your own people. In the opening scenes of “Truth & Treason,” we see a young Helmuth Hübener craft his “patriotic statement.” It’s 1941, in Hamburg, Germany, and Hübener’s statement is the 16-year-old’s final task to obtain an internship at| Intellectual Takeout
This past month has made me aware that the anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitic bigotry that have infected our news media and college campuses have trickled down into my own community. In one conversation, for instance, a good friend and fellow Catholic almost 50 years younger than I, stunned me with revelations about some of her| Intellectual Takeout
Two years ago, my wedding day went south when a young child pulled the fire alarm a couple hours into the reception, forcing everyone to evacuate as we waited for the fire station to turn it off. It was raining. My dress was soaked, my hair was ruined, and for a minute I thought my| Intellectual Takeout
One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions—alongside “Lose weight” and “Improve relationships”—is “Read more.” Most people feel a moral burden to get through as many books as possible in a year. It’s drilled into us from a very early age that reading is associated with success in life, and successful people reinforce this idea| Intellectual Takeout
The other day, an amusing image showed up on social media featuring CBS television personality Gayle King sitting on an airplane next to Fox News television personality Jesse Watters. King posted the selfie on her Instagram page, reveling in the ironic, chance encounter with a rival journalist. Despite being on opposite sides of the political aisle, the| Intellectual Takeout
Look at any old photograph of people from a hundred years ago and one of the most striking things about it is how well dressed everyone was. Even men out laboring in the fields or fishing in rivers, their sleeves rolled up and foreheads slick with sweat, often wore button ups, sometimes even with a| Intellectual Takeout
Recently I attended the 2025 Homesteaders of America Conference in Virginia. Some 6,500 organizers, speakers, vendors, and attendees packed the fairground parking lots and a couple of acres of grass with cars and trucks, and blessed by a bright sun, had a grand time together. Here under tents were companies like Home Grown Collective, Egg Brigade Chicken| Intellectual Takeout
Those who are unfortunate enough to spend a significant time on the app formerly known as Twitter have probably seen the recent discourse regarding women’s bodies. It’s a popular topic on the app right now, and every moderate to large account run by a female has had something to say about how and why a| Intellectual Takeout
Evangelical support for Israel and Ukraine is built on ignorance of who Rabbinic Jews and Ukrainian radicals really are. If you oppose moral degenerates at home, why support them abroad? The post Morally Confused Evangelical Protestants Continue to Support the Ukraine and Israel appeared first on Orthodox Reflections.| Orthodox Reflections
I wish my elders knew that, in the face of what seems to be an increasingly frightening technocratic reality, we want to live free from deceit and as true humans.| Public Discourse
What is the true nature of Orthodox Christianity, and is the faith compatible with Oriental practices such as Zen Buddhism?| Orthodox Reflections
We don’t need to rescue western civilization from outside forces, we need to rescue ourselves from western civilization.| Caitlin Johnstone
Many traditionalists tout a return to Roman Catholicism to renew a declining Western world. Returning to a non-Apostolic faith will not help.| Orthodox Reflections
A classic essay from 1960: libertarians and traditionalists share much in common.| Modern Age
Only by recognizing the divine mystery that predicates existence in the world can one reclaim his individuality. Only then will he be capable of searching for meaning generated outside the human intellect. Humans can never be gods, but they need God to live meaningful lives. (essay by John Gist)| The Imaginative Conservative
At face value, people look at vampire fables and draw parallels to elites in power...| Arktos.com
Trump's actions on immigration, fiscal policy, privacy, and war make MAGA Republicans angry. This was always going to be the outcome.| Orthodox Reflections
The Post WWII crusade against the foundations of Western Civilization doesn't stem from a conspiracy. Worse, it comes from a consensus.| Orthodox Reflections
Yes, I included this meme in the article.| Classics at the Intersections
Over then next few weeks, I will be posting up the text and images from a series of lectured I gave between July 9-13, 2019 at the CANE Summer Institute held at Brown University. The theme of the institute was "E Pluribus Unum". I was invited as the Onassis Lecturer to give a three lecture series on the theme. The lectures focus on ancient Greece and move from a general overview of identity in the Greek world (e pluribus plures), then to a deep dive looking at Athenian rejection of broader id...| Classics at the Intersections
MAGA cheers President Trump's moves for peace in Ukraine, but few are criticizing renewed war in the Middle East and fresh censorship at home.| Orthodox Reflections
Millennialism, in all its forms, is the curse of the modern world. The fruits of this heresy are always rotten.| Orthodox Reflections
The religious roots of the West are Orthodox Catholicism, as shown by the many pre-Schism saints the Orthodox commemorate.| Orthodox Reflections
In Ukraine and Syria, the incoming Trump Administration could protect Christians using American power and influence.| Orthodox Reflections
Donald Trump is squandering the biggest mandate for change ever given to a president. The work of the swamp the people voted to drain?| Orthodox Reflections
Kerby Anderson provides a summary of how mankind has viewed the world from the Romans until today. This summary provides us a perspective against which to compare and contrast a Christian, biblical worldview based on New Testament principles.| Probe Ministries
American society and associated ideologies are noticeably failing Gen Z. Authentic Christian Tradition can bring them what they are missing.| Orthodox Reflections
“Tú sola comprendiste que el hombre y el tigre se diferencian únicamente por el corazón.” —Horacio Quiroga, Juan Darién (1920) At an event at Stanford Law School last year, Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach shut down Federal Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech because his ideas hurt people’s feelings. More recently, officials in the United Kingdom have indicated […]| Minding The Campus
Americans usually see themselves as a force for good in this world. God's own instrument of history. The truth is much darker.| Orthodox Reflections
By chance I was recently introduced to the ideas of Oswald Spengler – a German intellectual of the early 20th century whose claim to fame is the two-volume work The Decline of the West. The essential idea of Spengler is that civilizations may be described similarly to organisms, which either thrive, survive, or stagnate andContinue reading "The Great Tree of Western Civilization"| ThinkingWest
By David Goodwin In October, 2023, a social media user posted about her surprise after a random conversation revealed her husband thought of Rome several times every day. The post went viral. After women began asking men about Rome and posting similar results, the topic became a trend in social media posts, memes, and articles. […]| The Classical Difference
In a materialistic society, honor goes to those achieving great wealth. Within Orthodox Christianity, exalted are the riches of poverty.| Orthodox Reflections
