Veritas et Sapientia

Mandeville, LA - [The Press.] "It has defended official criminals, on party pretexts, until it has created a United States Senate whose members are incapable of determining what crime against law and the dignity of their own body is, they are so morally blind, and it has made light of dishonesty till we have as a result a Congress which contracts to work for a certain sum and then deliberately […]

Mandeville, LA - in 1958, Communist sympathizer Frederick Pohl, disgusted with the economic actions of Eisenhower, wrote a satire on what a future family Christmas would look like thanks to Ike and the capitalists. Part of the story is the following satire on Herbert Clement Moore's Night Before Christmas. 60 years before it happened, a communist predicted the sacking of the Christ Child for Amazon, Samsung and Google. Merry Christmas! […]

Mandeville, LA - "I have already shown, in several parts of this work, by what means the inhabitants of the United States almost always manage to combine their own advantage with that of their fellow citizens; my present purpose is to point out the general rule that enables them to do so. In the United States hardly anybody talks of the beauty of virtue, but they maintain that virtue is […]

Mandeville, LA - [Thanks to Rod Dreher for posting this letter - Ed. M.C.] "On the other hand, you have stories of parents, all wealthy, all white, all ostensibly educated, whose highest telos seems to be water polo or soccer or skiing for their coddled teenage children and who therefore uproot themselves from whatever home and community they and their children have known to pursue such big goals as playing […]