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Veritas et Sapientia-This Thanksgiving, Give Thanks For Conserving The Beautiful

Mandeville, LA - Conservatism in a postmodern moment must therefore be different than the conservatism that motivated Burke or Taft or Disraeli or Reagan. The school of conservatism that might be most fitted for this moment, is paradoxically, the one that is the one least inclined to modernity. This would be a form of conservatism known as traditionalist, espoused most prominently by Russell Kirk. James Matthew Wilson has grasped the Burkean […]

November 22, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia – Dragons And Tanks-Identical Weapons of Mass Destruction

Mandeville, LA - The bronze dragons in the assault move ponderously and open breaches in the city walls. Fiery versions are thwarted by the smooth, steep incline of Gondolin’s hill. But a third variety, the iron dragons, carry Orcs within and move on ‘iron so cunningly linked that they might flow ... around and above all obstacles before them’; they break down the city gates ‘by reason of the exceeding heaviness […]

November 20, 2017 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Sacred Beauty of Men In Black Dresses

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: In my talk "How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Save The Free World" I quoted G.K. Chesterton our Veritas et Sapientia muse on society being run by men in dresses, listen to my talk here, the Chesterton Quote appears inline.- Ed., M.C.] Libraries have been written on modernity’s seepage into the Catholic Church, none better than St. Pius X’s Pascendi Gregis. But let us […]

November 16, 2017 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Tyranny of The Elite “Mainstream”

Mandeville, LA - Mainstreamers are stuck in the ’90s. Many of the senior foreign-policy advisers in the Western world are in their late 40s, 50s, and 60s. They often began their careers near the end of the Cold War. They often adore their mentors, from whom they took a sense of self-importance, a belief that every person in the world sleeping in peace owes it to them and their wisdom. They […]

November 15, 2017 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-To Bring About The Liberal’s Barbarism, Abolish Reality

Mandeville, LA - The attempt to contemplate history in all its dimensions and in the fullness of its detail led directly to the conviction that this world of substantial things and substantial events is the very world which the Leftist of our time wishes to see abolished; and such policy now began to appear egotistical and presumptuous. I am disinclined to the view that whatever exists necessarily has a commission to […]

November 14, 2017 1

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Veritas et Sapientia – On Being All Things To All Men

Mandeville, LA - The mission of the Church is to all nations and to all ages. " Going therefore, teach ye all nations Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you ; and behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world". The doctrines of the Church must be always and everywhere the same, namely those her Divine Founder commanded her to preach. […]

November 13, 2017 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-Solzhenitsyn: Ownership of 4k TV’s Has Produced Spiritual Depravity

Mandeville, LA - However, in early democracies, as in the American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the heritage of the preceding thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, […]

November 9, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-We Are Witness To The Enlightenment’s Funeral

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: I cut and pasted from this essay to select the points James Davis Hunter makes on the death of the Enlightenment and the futility of performing CPR on it. - MC ] As Hannah Arendt observed, the moral and political authority of the Enlightenment project and the Western tradition more extensively was simply too frail to counter the challenge of totalitarianism. A common cultural logic […]

November 7, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-To Fix The Carnage That Is Our Society, Restore What Was In Place Before The Revolt

Mandeville, LA - In Christendom, Gierke wrote, “Church and State were two Co-ordinate Powers” between which there was to be “an inseverable connexion and an unbroken interaction which must display itself in every part and also throughout the whole” of society. The Church, in short, was the soul of the body politic. But with the Protestant revolt and the so-called Enlightenment, the body politic of Christendom was inexorably divested of […]

November 6, 2017