Month: May 2023

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “Mitchell Kalpakgian writes in Seniorite vein about the lost arts of conversation and “enjoying people” in the slim but valuable volume The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization. Reminding us in the words of St Thomas that “no man can live without pleasure,” Kalpakgian asserts that the “greatest source of happiness” is “the enjoyment of persons.” In other words, communicating with, loving, and serving our fellow rational animals is at the heart of what it means […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “His [M.E. Bradford's] attempt to restore a conservative understanding of the Founding led to a series of famous exchanges with Harry Jaffa (and his epigones), and this is, probably, what Bradford is unfortunately best known for today. Jaffa argued that the Declaration was a revolutionary document. That it founded America on the principle of equality. That “equality…is then both good in itself and good for its consequences.” And that “the rooting of constitutionalism, and the […]