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Duffys on Harvard

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tells his 18-year-old daughter Paloma in a clip from the family reality series “The Great American Road Trip” that Harvard has “professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds,”… Continue Reading →

The Failed Socialist Utopia of New Harmony, Indiana

In the early 19th century, the small settlement on the Wabash River in Posey County, Indiana, known first as Harmonie and later as New Harmony, became the site of two successive experiments in communal living. The second of these—the secular,… Continue Reading →

St Thomas More on Fellowship

“And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?” —Thomas More, in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All… Continue Reading →

A Spectrum of Melancholy

“Melancholy acts as an internal irritant, like a grain of sand in an oyster, which, against all odds, forces the creation of a pearl.”

None of Your Problems Are Because Someone Else has a Trillion Dollars

Envy doesn’t give you more skills and drive to produce things that other people want to pay you money for.

The Grandeur That Is Already Ours: A Libertarian Catholic Reading of Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence and human dignity contains some of the most powerful affirmations of individual personhood in modern Social Doctrine — and some of its most troubling concessions to statist collectivism. We read it whole. Pope… Continue Reading →

Same Energy

An absolute legend went viral recently for refusing to bow to in Muslim prayer. A child (age 6-8) who refused to join classmates prostrating in prayer during a Scouts UK interfaith visit to Stirling Islamic Centre, drawing praise for his… Continue Reading →

On Death, Heresy & Solitude

For Mateusz, RIP Writing has become, or maybe has always been, a venting mechanism for me. It often comes in bursts of emotions I channel through rhythm, verse and rhyme, as poetry hides feeling behind structure. But when the sorrow… Continue Reading →

Justice Thomas: The Ideas of 1776 Are a Way of Life, Not Intellectual Playthings

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be lived, not treated as abstract, intellectualized theories during a lecture this week at the University of Texas, Austin. “Even those who support them too often… Continue Reading →

A civilization is not destroyed by Strong Evil men from the outsideit is destroyed by weak men on the inside who refuse to defendwhat is good.

Incorrectly attributed to GK Chesterton, this excellent quote sums up what men of the West face in this existential crisis.

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