As society loses its moral grounding, cooperation becomes impossible, while the state is forced to tend to the consequences of moral collapse.
“We look forward to hearing your paper on why the gods must be fed the blood of sacrificial victims.”
And other thoughts on Modern Orthodoxy in Britain.
A conservative Catholic professor’s reflections.
Europeans hate Israel because they hate themselves.
A connection impossible to avoid.
The philosopher Justin P. McBrayer was astounded to learn that his son, currently in the second grade, was being taught a distinction between “facts” and. . .
Islamist terrorists rarely make an effort to conceal their religious motivation. But some in the West—prominent politicians, intellectuals, journalists, and others—are ready to conceal it. . .
According to the late Leo Strauss, some of the West’s greatest devotees of philosophical truth and reason encoded their beliefs in hints, irony, and deliberate. . .