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Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Modern industrial nations were predatory, unable to survive except by invading and vanquishing foreign markets. The absence of a secure outlet for the immense volume of goods that the factory produced destined them to suffer economic ruin, as the Great Depression had confirmed beyond dispute. That possibility by itself afforded sufficient reason for the South to remain fundamentally agriculture. For his part, Lytle sought to […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Clearly, the Right cannot be reduced to a penchant for monarchy or integralism, industrialism or imperialism, racial castes or traditional sexual ethics. But what is common to the kinds of things Rightist movements love and defend is that they are all hierarchies, upheld in the name of nature, tradition, and order. Burke and De Maistre may disagree about how powerful the monarchy should be, but […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Now is a time for choosing. If sane, responsible people don't stand up now and put a stop to the kind of things that are tearing apart academia, including science, and that are destroying our capacity to live together, then they -- we -- are going to be responsible for whatever happens next. We are living in Weimar America. You remember what followed Weimar Germany, […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society,” Burke wrote in 1790. “I think I envy liberty as little as they do, to any other nation. But I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "While it is fascinating and edifying to watch a man contemplate the highest goods with the full weight of an impressive intellect, time and again, he holds back from truly embracing universal truth. In some real sense. For Peterson, Christ’s Passion is the ultimate example of what each one of us must struggle with in our own individual search for truth. Which is true! But […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "While it is fascinating and edifying to watch a man contemplate the highest goods with the full weight of an impressive intellect, time and again, he holds back from truly embracing universal truth. In some real sense. For Peterson, Christ’s Passion is the ultimate example of what each one of us must struggle with in our own individual search for truth. Which is true! But […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The conservatives specialize in a different heresy, which is really a secularized Calvinism. For them, people cannot become better. Sanctification is limited by the bounds of post-fall reality. God’s overcoming of our sin is extrinsic; we remain as fallen as ever. There is no sacramental grace that enables our ascent to Him while here on earth; and thus for the Calvinist there is neither the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Attempting to recreate the scene of Thirteenth Century France is futile, yes. But the inability to identically repeat preliberal worlds does not mean that the only way forward is to grit our teeth and win mastery over society; to have the Church compete with liberalism and emerge as a victor on liberalism’s terms. Our friend is mistaken. But his mistake is reasonable. It is the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The [Immaculate Reception] was immediately dubbed miraculous. The announcer for NBC’s national broadcast was Curt Gowdy, who declared on that December 23: “You talk about Christmas miracles. Here’s the miracle of all miracles!” It was the most improbable play, defying any earthy label. It merited a special name. A designation soon arrived, a name from the heavens. At the end of the game, a local […]