Veritas et Sapientia

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's Note-the following is excerpted from David Wemhoff's Culture Wars Magazine review of the epic book "The Most Controversial Decision-Truman, The Atom Bomb and the Defeat of Japan"] - "[Wilson] Miscamble mentions context as justification for Truman's evil becoming right. Judging from what he has written, part of that context is the widespread horror and destruction caused by World War II. In other words, Miscamble engages in relativizing […]

Mandeville, LA - In short, the whole world being divided about whether the stream was going slower or faster, became conscious of something vague but vast that was going against the stream. Both in fact and figure there is something deeply disturbing about this, and that for an essential reason. A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. A dead dog can […]

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 […]