The thesis of God: The Science, the Proofs: The Dawn of a Revolution (not yet available in English translation) is summarized, simply and directly, on pages 507-508 by the Australian-British physicist Paul Davies: The temptation to believe that […]
Panic, fear, and loathing concerning atmospheric warming and the “existential” threat alarmists claim it to be have failed so far to encourage a reconsideration of modern man’s relationship with the natural world and the Promethean […]
I. Joseph Pearce once remarked that he tends to look away from Vatican politics on the grounds that it is better not to peer too closely into the engine room of the Barque of St. […]
I once read of a man who identifies as a hippopotamus. This nugget relating to postmodern cultural realities put me in mind of T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hippopotamus”, whose hero progresses from “rest[ing] on his […]
For atheists, the Old Testament is a collection of ancient myths, and the New Testament an inconsistent and plainly fraudulent record presented as objective history, the work of many lying hands shamelessly proffered by the […]
1. In the early modern and modern periods of Western history, the religious establishment comprised of the various churches and the political establishments with which they were affiliated or which they supported feared liberal philosophies […]
Intellectual work is performed principally by four categories of people. The first is wise men: men of contemplation, true philosophers whose end is the discovery of truth. These have been for the most part the […]
G.K. Chesterton remarks somewhere in Orthodoxy that the longer one is acquainted with animals, the greater the difference between them and human beings appears. I have had a familiarity, frequently a close one, with a […]
Glenn Arbery’s Boundaries of Eden is a book set in the contemporary American South that contains, to one degree or another, every literary ingredient of the genre known as the “Southern novel”—as well as several […]
When the clutch safety switch on my pickup truck failed the other day and it had to be towed a couple of miles to the auto repair shop I expected I’d need to call a […]
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