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Month: June 2004
Appalachia Revisited
Taking Another Look at the Hatfields and McCoys If America has ever had a non-pluralistic culture, it was Appalachia in the nineteenth century before the coal mining started: Poor, …
Elvis, the Colonel, and Me
Excerpt It was also the anniversary date of the release of Elvis’s first number one hit, “Heartbreak Hotel,” so we talked about Elvis. All of us are fans. Gotta …
“Social changes which propel dubious characters in great numbers into ruling positions make the political environment unlivable for well-bred men with some self-respect.” Eric Voegelin, Plato and Aristotle, 288-289.
Orestes Brownson’s Conversion When Brownson started taking concrete steps toward Rome, it was philosophy that paved the road. His was a philosophical conversion, Rome via Athens, though he would …
“The man who can wholeheartedly believe that all things are created by God and that God does not create evil, is freed from many burdens, and one of them …
Laughter is the mind sneezing. Wyndham Lewis
Prophet McLuhan on the World Series of Poker’s Popularity “Poker is a game that has often been cited as the expression of all the complex attitudes and unspoken values …
“If I had to single out one piece of writing which was more responsible than anything else for my becoming a Catholic, it would that essay of Kierkegaard’s.” Walker …
Some Education from Henry Adams The “profoundest lessons are not the lessons of reason; they are sudden strains that permanently warp the mind.” “The habit of expression leads to …
Books I recommend to young adults James Schall, Another Sort of Learning. Read this while you’re still in college. Its primary value rests in the writers Schall introduces (the …
“Christians should be the salt, not the syrup, of the earth.” Georges Bernanos “What matters is not what ideas do to men but what men do to their ideas; …