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‘Truth and Treason’ and the Power of Standing up to One’s Own 0
- Featured, Culture, Entertainment, History, International, Politics, Western Civilization
- October 28, 2025
It’s never easy to admit when you’re wrong – especially when it means standing up to your own people. In the opening scenes of “Truth & Treason,” we see a young Helmuth Hübener craft his “patriotic statement.” It’s 1941, in Hamburg, Germany, and Hübener’s statement is the 16-year-old’s final task to obtain an internship at
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The Canary in the Coal Mine of Culture 3
- Culture, Featured, History, International, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Western Civilization
- October 28, 2025
This past month has made me aware that the anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitic bigotry that have infected our news media and college campuses have trickled down into my own community. In one conversation, for instance, a good friend and fellow Catholic almost 50 years younger than I, stunned me with revelations about some of her
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It’s Time to Rebuild America’s Shared National Identity 0
- Culture, Featured, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- October 23, 2025
The other day, an amusing image showed up on social media featuring CBS television personality Gayle King sitting on an airplane next to Fox News television personality Jesse Watters. King posted the selfie on her Instagram page, reveling in the ironic, chance encounter with a rival journalist. Despite being on opposite sides of the political aisle, the
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Living Under the Tyranny of the Casual 3
- Culture, Featured, History, Religion, Western Civilization
- October 22, 2025
Look at any old photograph of people from a hundred years ago and one of the most striking things about it is how well dressed everyone was. Even men out laboring in the fields or fishing in rivers, their sleeves rolled up and foreheads slick with sweat, often wore button ups, sometimes even with a
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Against Our Collective Autumnal Death Cult 49
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, History, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- October 9, 2025
During the month of October, Americans celebrate the arrival of cooler weather with a variety of outdoor and indoor decor. Pumpkins and mums are arranged on front porches. “Harvest” signs ironically adorn front doors in suburban neighborhoods. Cinnamon and apple scents and flavors dominate home decor stores. It’s all so wholesome, albeit a little cheesy.
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‘Men Have Forgotten God, That’s Why All This Has Happened’50
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- September 12, 2025
The above words were the theme of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1983 Templeton Prize address. Early in this speech he said, “And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: ‘Men have forgotten God.’”
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