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Mandeville, LA - "Northrop Frye, in speaking of the pattern of comedy, describes it as a "parabola": "a U-shaped plot, with the action sinking into deep and potentially tragic complications and then suddenly turning upward into a happy ending." The bottom of this figure Frye calls "saturnalia," after the ritualized and socially purgative disorder of the Roman holiday— a moment when reality is inverted against its proper nature and turned […]

Mandeville, LA -  Wilhelm Röpke as Successful Prophet: "Fortunately, in discussing family size, Röpke’s priority lay elsewhere. While raising the matter in the context of the population question, he had a larger purpose in asking: [W]hat happens to man and his soul? What happens to the things which cannot be produced or expressed in monetary terms...but which are the ultimate conditions of man’s happiness and of the fullness and dignity […]

Mandeville, LA - What is really a long way off is this individuality and liberty the Daily Mail praised. It is the tower that a man has built for himself that is seen in the distance. It is Private Enterprise that is Utopian, in the sense of something as distant as Utopia. It is Private Property that is for us an ideal and for our critics an impossibility. It is that […]

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: The Modern World has produced such grave errors in philosophical thought that the very definition of words used in our incessant conversations are corrupted. Take the term "socialism", the cousin of "communism", it is defined by the corrupt as wholly an economic tyranny, the great Wilhelm Ropke explains the nonsense at work]. "One of the oversimplifications by which social rationalism distorts the truth is that […]

Mandeville, LA - "This is a naked judicial claim to legislative—indeed, super-legislative—power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government. Except as limited by a constitutional prohibition agreed to by the People, the States are free to adopt whatever laws they like, even those that offend the esteemed Justices’ “reasoned judgment.” A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does […]

Sapientia et Veritas - "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is […]

Mandeville, LA -  [Editor's note: Today is the first day of Lent not associated with a Holy Day and a good time to humbly perform an Examen of Conscience and consider what penance may be prescribed. It's not enough to agitate a moral "revival" unless we know what morality we wish to revive.] "With the ever decreasing decline of Catholic influence, the United States has devolved into a quagmire of […]