Every complex society is led by a class of politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, lawyers, judges, intellectuals, and other people who know how to influence it. Once this political or ruling class ceases to fear God, it will begin to enhance its power at the expense of the liberty of the people.
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Keeping Alive the Memory
Revolutionaries and totalitarians
always try to erase the people’s
link to the past. Hitler discontinued the teaching of Latin in the
German schools.
Robert Novak, Rest in Peace
Novak was to journalism
what Ty Cobb was to baseball. Just as Ty Cobb mastered the skills of
hitting and base-running like no one else ever did, Robert Novak mastered
the skills of investigative journalism.
Was Galileo Guilty?
Was the Inquisition court that condemned the
Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo wrong? The answer is complex
rather than a simple “yes” or “no.”
Three Heroic Popes—Part II
More Catholic history that you will not find in most Catholic schools.
Three Heroic Popes—Part I
More Catholic history that you can’t get in Catholic schools.
Three Great Chaplains
Some Catholic history you are unlikely to get in Catholic schools.
Notre Dame’s Honorary Degrees
ome of President Obama’s supporters have
attempted to justify the honorary degree given him by Notre Dame by
comparing it to an honorary degree given by the same university to
the newly elected President George W. Bush. The cases are in no way
equivalent.
A Primer On Liberty
The modern rhetoric of liberty, however, seldom accompanies true liberty.