Prometheus Unbound: Mary Shelley’s Admonishment About Scientism ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Drew Maglio

Mary Shelley was perhaps the first to illuminate modernity’s insatiable appetite for temporal progress. Today humanity continues its quest to maximize its knowledge, not to attain truth, but in a bid to achieve a new age of heaven on earth, powered by the rule of applied science.

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/12/prometheus-unbound-mary-shelley-admonishment-scientism-drew-maglio.html

Time to Return to Medieval Courtesy Books ~ The Imaginative Conservative

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 souls before vices could gain a foothold.

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/time-return-medieval-courtesy-books-john-horvat.html

Biden’s Lies and Their Consequences in the Fall of Afghanistan | The Heritage Foundation

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 www.heritage.org/homeland-security/commentary/bidens-lies-and-their-consequences-the-fall-afghanistan

Confucian Proper Order and the Commonwealth—TIC

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.

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/confucian-proper-order.html