Finding your capacity to love…

If you think love grows best where there aren’t any difficulties, maybe you should read this. Well, maybe you should read it anyway, because what passes for ‘love’ in this day and age, all too often isn’t love at all, but something far, far smaller and weaker. And that’s really too bad, all around. hat [...]

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The rest of the story

Eric Metaxas notes what is motivating some of the dissidents in China, including the most famous one at the moment.

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Common knowledge isn’t all that common

From Ignorance to Mastery at The Common Room looks at the surprising ignorance of some folks caught in the social safety net.  

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Thirty years ago: A Flame for Freedom

Paul Kengor shares some behind the scenes looks at events surrounding the communist imposition of martial law in Poland. More specifically, he focuses on the response to it by Ronald Reagan. Read Christmas 1981: A Flame for Freedom in Poland. Please, do.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

I read Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin this week, in a free Kindle edition. I’m not sure what I expected, but the book was better than I anticipated, with wit, wonderful descriptions, action, suspense, layers of story upon story, amazing characterizations, and surprise twists. I learned some history, which I like to do while [...]

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Book review: A Special Mother Is Born

Gerard Nadal writes: This book addresses one of the burning issues of our day. With prenatal diagnostics leading to the abortions of the less-than-perfect among us, with parents who are frightened into paralysis by these diagnoses and a medical establishment increasingly surrendering to the cowardice of eugenics, over thirty mothers and three fathers of special [...]

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, revisited

From Mr. Smith and The Ides of March, by Robinson O’Brien-Bours: While both Clooney’s and Capra’s films depict a political system rife with corruption, there is a hugely important difference between the two. Clooney’s dark and pessimistic tale brings no closure to it, and no hope; one leaves the theater with a bitter sense of [...]

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What makes something right or wrong?

It matters what you base your ethics on.

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Reagan being honored in Europe

Statues are being unveiled and streets renamed.

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The American Mind, or The Logic of Freedom

Letters from an Ohio Farmer provides a great little history and philosophy lesson, in The American Mind.

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