Fr. Chad Ripperger writes, “The juridical concept of the deposit [of Faith] requires that it is not the property of the guardian. In other words, it is not the person who receives it that has ownership of it, but of the consigner who is handing it over to him to keep it in a safe… Read More The Binding Force of Tradition
Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook. How Britain Lost Ireland. What are the origins of the Irish War of Independence? What impact did the First World War have on Irish efforts for Home Rule? What was the mood in Ireland following the bloody Easter Rising of 1916? And, who was Éamon de Valera, the man who dominated… Read More “Let Me Carry Your Cross for Ireland, Lord”
By Joseph Pearce | May 29th, 2025 |Categories: Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative. If pride might be said to be the making of God in our own image, a lesser form of pride is the making of our gods, our idols, into our own image. This latter form of pride, what might be called pride in the lower… Read More Shakespeare: Saint or Sinner?
Michael Savage earned his PhD in epidemiology and nutrition sciences from the Univ. of Cal. at Berkeley. Inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame after over 26 years at the top of the talk radio format. Borders, Language and Culture are his pillars. A NY Times Best Selling author of over 30 books and… Read More Food and Spiritual Sanity
And author Douglas Murray Slams online entertainer Nicolas De Balinthazy for supporting NYC Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani who has been labeled “Sub-AOC”. July 25, 2025. MxM News Israel confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. airstrike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site over the weekend caused severe damage, rendering the facility “inoperable.” Israeli officials say the operation… Read More Fordow: Israeli report confirms nuclear site inoperable
Kathryn Jean Lopez June 23, 2025 8:37 PM. National Review. Our good friend in these parts, health-care-policy expert and delight Sally Pipes, CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, writes in Forbes: Advocates say these laws spare the terminally ill from unnecessary suffering. But a closer look at Europe and Canada—where physician-assisted suicide has been legal and common for… Read More The Assisted-Suicide Danger Zone
From Killer Drones to Robotaxis, Sci-Fi Dreams Are Coming to Life. The world is on fire, and that’s giving some of the richest men the audacity of hope. Hope that their billions, brains and brashness can usher in a new world filled with robot cars, killer drones and solar power. In other words: hard tech. These sci-fi dreams—made popular by… Read More Eschatological Anxieties. Robotics “could lead to humanoid robots outnumbering people” — Musk.
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The Devolution of Alastair Campbell’s and RoryStewart’s Mental Health. Alastair Campbell’s confessions about his own ongoing mental health instability are famous (his role in instigating the bloody Iraq war could doubtless explain some of that) but not everyone is familiar with Rory Stewart’s mental health battles and near suicide attempt after political disappointments and Boris… Read More Rory Stewart’s Mental Health
Existentialist philosophy and analysis, to the extent that it measures “the predicament of man and his world in the state of estrangement” (Paul Tillich) corroborates what Christian theology has always referred to as Original Sin. As a school of philosophy it seems pretty well dead now, but important insights of the original existentialists remain valid,… Read More Existence and the Word
Read by David Suchet. The Penitential Psalms are prayers of sorrow for sin, expressing the soul’s contrition and appealing to God’s mercy. They acknowledge sin, recognize God’s holiness, and ask for mercy to achieve union with Him History Reasons for Penitential Psalms
Understanding the Epistemological Foundations of Scientific Totalitarianism. by Phillip D. Collins. Scientific totalitarianism is certainly not a new topic in the halls of political science and history. Given its bloody legacy of democide (i.e., state-sanctioned genocide, mass murder, and politicide) and its prolific spread throughout the world, scientific totalitarianism remains a preoccupying sociopolitical phenomenon of… Read More The Faustian Face of Modern Science
Perhaps the greatest spiritual crime in our day is that Pornography is made available FREE on the Internet. The near occasion of sin is put in people’s hands on a device that is very hard to live without because it is the only game in town for practically everything necessary to living in today’s world.… Read More Pornography
“Where words fail, music speaks” — Hans Christian Andersen Sinatra’s Watertown (subtitled A Love Story) is a studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in March 1970 through Reprise Records. It is a concept album centered on a man from Watertown, New York. In a series of soliloquies, the nameless narrator tells his heartbreaking story of personal loss: his wife has… Read More Time Out. Sinatra’s Wondrous “Watertown”
John J. Mearsheimer, Author.International Security (2019) 43 (4): 7–50. Abstract. The liberal international order, erected after the Cold War, was crumbling by 2019. It was flawed from the start and thus destined to fail. The spread of liberal democracy around the globe—essential for building that order—faced strong resistance because of nationalism, which emphasizes self-determination. Some targeted… Read More Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order
NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK By Pieter Vree, Editor | June 2025 | New Oxford Review Notebook. Well, that’s finally over. Pope Francis died on April 21, bringing to a close a chaotic pontificate characterized by chronic confusion and polarizing polemics. The late Pope, an imprecise thinker, writer, and speaker, was known to engage in studied ambiguity and to issue pointed barbs.… Read More Farewell, Francis. Hello, Leo XIV
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