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Veritas et Sapientia-Our Kids Were Programmed To Be “Children of The World”

Mandeville, LA - "But who am I to look out the window at others, when the story is my own as well? All my siblings went belly up in small farming. I held on to the old homestead and a remnant 40 acres only by renting out to a superb farming corporation while earning my living from the coast. Such a strange Faustian bargain globalization proved to be: unlimited affluence […]

February 15, 2017 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-Let Us Quest To Become “High Tories”

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: From a review of Ron Dart's The North American High Tory Tradition, by Grant Havers. This list of "High tory" values looks very familiar to me and will to those studying the Ancient Regimes of Christendom. - MC] What, then, constitutes the philosophy of High Toryism? Drawing heavily upon the ideas of Hooker, Swift, Johnson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and especially George Grant, Dart outlines ten principles […]

February 14, 2017 9

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Veritas et Sapientia-Changing Your “Gender” Does NOT Change Your Person

"I am forever whatever I have been at any time for others-and I may at any time be called upon to answer for it-no matter how changed I may be now." Mandeville, LA - [Editor's Note - MacIntyre here shows why there is no change in the human person that can be made by the mutilation of its physical form and the danger of thinking that there is. Yet another […]

February 7, 2017 7

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Terms of Our Discourse Matter Because Ideas Have Consequences

Mandeville, LA - One may be accused here of oversimplifying the historical process, but I take the view that the conscious policies of men and governments are not mere rationalizations of what has been brought about by unaccountable forces. They arc rather deductions from our most basic ideas of human destiny, and they have a great, though not unobstructed, power to determine our course.For this reason I turn to William of Occam […]

January 30, 2017 7

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Real Meaning of ‘Murica First

“America First” received its most sophisticated postwar interpretation in the fin de siècle campaigns of Pat Buchanan, whose themes, in coarse and erratic form, have been picked up by Donald Trump. Mandeville, LA - The phrase ['Muricah First] sank after Pearl Harbor, though in the 1970s, strangely, it shows up on campaign pins for the internationalist Republican Richard Nixon as well as Gerald Ford, who had been a cofounder of the […]

January 24, 2017 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Madness of Normalcy

Oddities do not strike odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time; while odd people are always complaining of the dulness of life. Mandeville, LA - "In this remarkable situation it is plainly not now possible (with any hope of a universal appeal) to start, as our fathers did, with the fact of sin. This very fact which was to them (and is to me) […]

January 20, 2017 7

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Veritas et Sapientia-Conform Your Mind To the Reality That The Constitution Created This Mess

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Michael Hanby is a philosopher that has some interesting things to say about our Constitutional system as being THE reason our Order is so DIS-ordered- M.C.] (Excerpted from Rod Dreher's The Dissolution of The Real) "First, says Hanby, the US Constitutional order presupposes the modern view of reality and nature. In that view of nature, there was no such thing as intrinsic order built into […]

January 18, 2017 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Unjust Man vs The Just Man

Mandeville, LA - "Now 'justice' and 'injustice' seem to be ambiguous, but because that with which we lock a door. Let us take as a starting-point, then, the various meanings of 'an unjust man'. Both the lawless man and the grasping and unfair man are thought to be unjust, so that evidently both the law-abiding and the fair man will be just. The just, then, is the lawful and the fair, […]

January 16, 2017 7

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Men Who Shape Good Futures, Shape Them For The Next World

Mandeville, LA - Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians […]

January 13, 2017 6