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Keep Silence and Hear
In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV writes that a school should be a place where the young learn to “seek and love the truth.” He worries about an educational...
The Grammar of Reverence
Something is stirring in the West. After decades of polite secular confidence, people are talking about God again. Not only priests and rabbis but writers, artists, and philosophers are...
What Charles Taylor Got Wrong
Two decades ago, I was an undergraduate at McGill University, where Charles Taylor lectured. Taylor, born in Quebec in 1931, is one of the most important philosophers of modernity...
