What You Need to Know About Mozart
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Life Under Compulsion: The Minotaur
When we lose the sense of transcendence, when in our hearts and minds the things of time are no longer oriented toward eternity, then,...
What You Need to Know About Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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What You Need to Know About Henry David Thoreau
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Nourishing America
In a recently popular documentary, Rosie, a 5th-grader from a small town in Colorado, describes how she often goes to bed with an empty...
What You Need to Know About Hans Urs von Balthasar
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What You Need to Know About Yvor Winters
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How To Talk About Race
Hillsdale, Michigan. After the George Zimmerman verdict, President Obama talked about the need for a conversation on race in the United States. He also...
Holy Days, Holidays and the Weekend, or: Are we all Proletarians...
Archduchess Maria Theresa, wife of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Franz Stephan of Habsburg-Lothringen, is on the way to her desk. She...
Veritatis Splendor at 20—Lessons for Localists
Veritatis Splendor, John Paul II’s encyclical letter, The Splendor of Truth, is now twenty years old. Promulgated August 6, 1993, the letter addressed fundamental...