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What Is Ancient Philosophy?
According to Pierre Hadot, a prominent historian of ancient thought and professor emeritus at the CollËge de…
Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Economics, as a social science, occupies a peculiar space within academic and national life. Economists deal with…
To Beginning Law Students
Regardless of what each of you has come to law school to do, allow me to suggest…
Abortion in the Tides of Culture
Where did the pro-life movement go? A half-dozen years ago movement activists were everywhere, drafting statements, holding…
A Musical Requiem
Timing is everything. To complete his three-year tenure as composer-in-residence with the Pacific Symphony (an ensemble in…
Poetry
Night falling early: silver in the duff, frosty small change, and in our maple, crows, calculating and…
Ivan Karamazov’s Mistake
It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” as a prescient…
The Embarrassment of Sin and Grace
It is hard to know precisely where we are in the unfolding of the Long Lent of…
While We’re At It
· I won’t go so far as to say that some of my best friends are, but…
Orestes Brownson and the Truth About America
If you attend Mass in the crypt of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University…
Briefly Noted 48
After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism. By Fergus Kerr. Blackwell. 254 pp. $24.95 paper. “The problem with Thomism,”…
Celibacy in Context
It seems that the one thing everyone knows about the Eastern Churches is that “they have married…
Pacifism Redux
We, the undersigned, are grateful to Darrell Cole for “Listening to Pacifists” (August/September). He writes with charity,…
Separation of Church and State
During last year’s commencement exercises at the University of Virginia, every graduate received a fancy compendium of…
Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order
First, the basics: born in Germany in 1901, Eric Voegelin received a doctorate in political science from…
