By John Horvat Manners are not artificial rules for controlling people’s lives. They are the commonsense guidelines developed over time by Christian peoples to facilitate the practice of virtue. Courtesy books made this process easier since they helped create good habits early in children’s… Continue Reading “Time to Return to Medieval Courtesy Books ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
Hans A. von Spakovsky The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2008, when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, “that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.” — Read on http://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/the-latest-alleged-election-fraud-california-may-have-overturned
By Kay C. James Americans can debate whether there was good reason to leave Afghanistan after 20 years, but what can’t be debated are the disastrous consequences of President Joe Biden’s precipitous pullout. — Read on http://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/commentary/bidens-lies-and-their-consequences-the-fall-afghanistan
Confucius The illustrious ancients, when they wished to make clear and to propagate the highest virtues in the world, put their states in proper order. Before putting their states in proper order, they regulated their families. Before regulating their families… they perfected their souls.… Continue Reading “Confucian Proper Order and the Commonwealth—TIC”
Poem by Thomas Banks That sheep are sheep, and food for wolves or worse,/ That cricketsong dies with the autumn sun,/ In your eye summed up all the universe./ It would perplex you to see justice done. — Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/aesop-thomas-banks.html
By Michael De Sapio Spinoza has appeared to build upon the edifice of the ancients and the medieval scholastics, but he has actually taken the floor out from under us, so that “God” and “man” no longer mean quite what they did. — Read… Continue Reading “The God of Philosophy or the God of Faith? ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
By Thomas D. Williams PhD Christians stranded in Afghanistan are turning off their phones and fleeing to hill country to avoid being hunted down by the Taliban. — Read on http://www.breitbart.com/faith/2021/08/26/afghan-christians-flee-escape-talibans-targeted-killings/amp/