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If DC becomes a state, what will be its nickname? E.g. Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. How about "the Deep State"?
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@jennfrey
It would take Socrates about 10 minutes to get cancelled in a modern university.
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My daily nightmare. Harvard undergrads who have no idea who Cicero was. Not sure of the century of the American revolution. Not sure whether the Reformation comes before or after the Enlightenment. Demosthenes, is that a think tank? And these are History concentrators.
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From many years of teaching Harvard undergrads, I've learned that about 30% of humans don't have a sense of humor. So they won't pick up that AV is just joking about the separation of powers.
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The most destructive form of 'structural racism' I see in the US is keeping poor minorities in failing inner city public schools because politicians aren't willing to challenge the teachers' unions who support them. That's pretty 'structural,' right?
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Governments around the world have claimed absolute power over the lives of citizens for 18 months. They said they were just trying to get us back to normal, following science. But now they don't want to give up their power, and are ignoring science. Should we be surprised?
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Which Catholic high school in the US provides the best education, by which I mean solid courses in classical and modern languages, history, literature and philosophy? Faithful and without wokery?
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Remember my late wife today, a faithful enfant du Sacré- Coeur.
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The odd thing about our post-Christian materialism is that we kept the Christian doctrine of the infinite worth of human life but did away with the afterlife. So now every second of the present life is infinitely precious, which is not the Christian view.
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One of the lessons I've learned from Covid-tide is the incredible power of herd behavior on the way even (or especially) the educated think. Catholic conclusion: academics are atheists not because of arguments but because too few are willing to say they are not.
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What happened in Uvalde shows you can't just create protocols and rules for what police should do in an emergency. You have to hire brave and selfless men and women.
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Suggest all future public statuary should be of abstract figures like Justice, Piety, Virtue. That way it will be easier to flush out the enemies of the good.
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My argument that phronesis, practical wisdom, is and should be superior to scientific expertise and a fortiori to pretended science.
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What's the difference between the civil rights protests of the '60s and the uprisings this summer? The civil rights protests were led by Baptist preachers. The uprising this summer is led by 'trained Marxists.'
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Was taken to hospital with kidney stone this morning. (Everything fine now, thanks.) While there I was subjected to mandatory CNN in the waiting room. Was trying to decide which caused more acute suffering. I think it was CNN.
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Just listened to Handel's Messiah and thought about all the people who want to destroy Western civilization.
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@brithume
Anyway, it's a relief to have it confirmed that # me too was never about justice for women but always about power for feminists.
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Ancient Christian historians said that Christ chose to be born under the empire for a reason.
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Of babies and bathwater. My defense of the Renaissance against the perversities of woke.
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The time is now at hand when academics who like to consider themselves progressive must choose whether they want to be liberal or whether they want to be woke. The gap between the two is widening every day.
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The center of Christianity in Japan in the 16th c. and still home to the largest number of Japanese Christians in 1945. I've often wondered why the US chose to drop the bomb on that city of all the cities in Japan.
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Aristotle in Politics 5.9 says that a tyrant who wishes to control the citizenry should take care to suppress liberal education (paideia).
CHE is here quoting (thank God, to criticize) the New Yorker. With barbarism like this in the pages of the New Yorker, I’m glad other magazines are on the rise. What a fall, not from grace (that happened long ago), but from class.
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Ordered liberty in medieval universities
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So governors have absolute power in pandemics to rule by emergency decree, except when they don't wanna. Then they just 'disagree'.
I strongly disagree with Montgomery County’s decision to mandate the closure of private and parochial schools. My full statement:
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Going off Twitter for a while. Sick of politics frankly and want to spend my time reading history. In books.
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@JeremyTate41
I'm afraid the message it will send to the teachers' unions is that they need to use their political clout to increase govt harassment of home schoolers.
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Respect and admiration. A university president actually says 'no.'
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@HootenWilson
I prefer not to yield to the illiterate view that 'man' can only mean 'a male'. It can mean either 'vir' and 'homo'. Translating to 'person' is often awkward.
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So if there are no adverse consequences to Denmark's decision, will other jurisdictions recognize that the emperor has no clothes?
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Edward Feser is one of the leading modern Thomist philosophers in the US
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As luck would have it, I'm lecturing on him this week. Students are reading the Confessions. Every year, I wonder whether some students can still connect with Augustine. Every year, somebody does.
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The left thinks it can use coronavirus to abolish Christmas. More evidence, if any was needed, that they think they are God.
SOBERING: U.S. reports over 100,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours for the first time ever. Smashes all time record.
We have basically lost this battle. Not sure if Christmas is even saveable unless we do something drastic fast! 🔥
#COVID19
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@benshapiro
The driver didn't have any choice. If he had stopped for a few seconds, the car would have been surrounded by rioters, windows possibly smashed in. Self-defense.
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Now reading London Telegraph and South China Morning Post again to get uncensored US news.
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Houellebecq thinks modernity is committing suicide bec of low birthrates. I think one reason why progressive ideology has become so virulent is bec progs don't have enough children any more, so they have to reproduce themselves by ideological conversion.
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@ccpecknold
I think public school unions are also underestimating the extent to which they are weakening their own position in the public mind.
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For me this will always be the most beautiful painting of the baptism of Christ in Western art. Piero della Francesca
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@JamesDelingpole
All I want from this crisis is for people to giggle uncontrollably at unironic uses of the words 'expert' 'the science' and 'scientific models predict'
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The strangeness of the moment is such that it's hard to guess whether the statue was destroyed by Antifa or white supremacists: both are plausible culprits. Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his famous Fourth of July speech via
@DandC
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We Can't Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We're Starting a New One.
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@M_Millerman
In Russia they think they trace their lineage to Byzantium and Rome. In the West we trace our lineage only back to the Enlightenment, and forget everything before that.
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So we are learning the extent to which the country has been ruled by executive decree in the last decade. Transition from real legislation to edict also a feature of Rome's transition from republic to principate.
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Almost everything we believe we believe on faith, mostly faith in people claiming expert knowledge: scientists, historians, journalists, professionals, priests etc. The question really shouldn't be, Do you have evidence for that? but Whom do you trust?
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I guess it's my déformation professionelle, but whenever I read lawyers talking about Scotus my first thought is that they are talking about Duns.
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This is the best defense of 'integralism' I have ever read.
For countries that seek to bolster their national communities and encourage the hopes that spring from connection to one’s roots, cultural Christianity is essential.
Don't sneer at "cultural Christianity."
@gjpappin
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@ccpecknold
and yours truly.
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@AnikaFreeindeed
No idea. I can honestly say it has never occurred to me to be proud of being white. A bit like being proud of having two legs. The population is so large that membership does not confer much distinction.
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Also that upwards of 90% of all students in the last two decades have studied no Western history at all apart from American history (and that mostly 20th century).
A friendly reminder that the real crisis in higher ed isn't CRT or gender studies (hardly any undergrads are majoring in these subjects, friends) but the marginalization of liberal learning and the true meaning of a higher education.
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Why we need to be studying the Western tradition NOW and why Great Books programs need history.
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So now only the wealthy can have gifted and talented programs. New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program
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In the current crisis I keep thinking of Michael Oakeshott's remark that politics is a ‘second-rate form of activity ... at once corrupting to the soul and fatiguing to the mind.’
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Remembering Bernard Bailyn now at Harvard and around the world. One of the greatest historians of the 20th century. A man who believed, with Oakeshott, that the study of history was a much finer use of the mind than politics. I wish more historians believed that.
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@RealSLokhova
So what they're saying is: we knew the FBI was corrupt all along, and if you care about this injustice in particular you simply lack our sophistication.
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Classical Education for All
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One of my philosophy profs in college, Fr. Ed Mahoney, who could be irascible at times, told me once that St. Jerome, who was famously cantankerous, gave him hope that the bad-tempered could achieve sanctity.
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If the classics faculty at Princeton were really concerned about the education of minorities, they could organize tuition for black high school students instead of lowering standards for everyone. Trenton is not that far away. Education is supposed to improve students, right?
We have learned to see the second death of ancient learning. - C.S. Lewis
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Why do people think Biden's VP pick is important? Judging by the two previous cases of presidential incapacity, Wilson and Reagan, the shadow president will be Jill Biden.
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Why we need traditions, above all religious traditions. Bonfire of the Verities
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@Vermeullarmine
Listening to this in real time - I'm at a dept meeting where it is being suggested that we should teach 'engaged' history, viz. politicized history.
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Diversity is at times our strength.
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In Italian (state) classical high schools (liceo classico) students read every one of those authors. In the original languages.
It’s not only possible, it is now the norm, to go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a single word from Homer, Plato, Augustine, or Dante.
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That and an ironclad rule: 1 administrator for every 100 students and / or every 20 faculty. Otherwise the tail wags the dog.
I continue to see and hear terrible higher ed news, but I am persuaded that there are only two solutions to all of our woes:
1. Intellectual zeal. Without it, nothing works. That's what holds us together.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself. Build real communities.
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Today's lectionary: 'When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things,
for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.'
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@InezFeltscher
C S Lewis said that the sound of hell was 'incessant autobiography' but he lived before the age of cable TV
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@Vermeullarmine
I suppose we are now heading towards 'personal law' such as they had in the late Roman empire, when individuals were placed under separate laws depending on their ethnicity and social rank.
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@JeremyTate41
I see it too, operating also on the university level, through activities such as those sponsored by FEHE. What revivalism was to Christian America in the 19th c., classical education will be to traditional American values in the 21st.
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Lesson for universities: The opposite of meritocracy is not equality but mediocrity.
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@Vermeullarmine
The purpose of conservatism is to legitimate leftist policies in oligarchies posing as democracies.
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@ShadiBartsch
Yes. Plato and Aristotle survived because they were more compatible with the religions of the book, which filtered antiquity for us. Materialists like Epicureans and early Greek Stoics were lost. Roman Stoics survive because they were moralists. Pre-Socratics and Sophists lost.
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@Vermeullarmine
When the flagellant movement was dying down in the late Middle Ages, bourgeois flagellants used to paint red stripes on their backs and stroke their backs lightly with silk whips. I guess the wokerati are there already.
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@megalo_psychia
@AEHiltonIII
At least there's no longer the disgrace of our country, alone among the nations of the earth, enshrining infanticide as a constitutional right.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. (Burke)
One of the fastest growing accounts on Twitter is
@Culture_Crit
The account mostly focuses on what the old world built. The explosive growth is evidence of the fact that the modern world is starving for beauty.
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Agree, but this is a relatively new phenomenon. Evangelicals were devoted church-goers when I was young. What happened?
I am astounded by how many evangelicals I meet who are genuine people, love the Lord, read the Bible daily, but literally never go to church.
“Me and Jesus” Christianity is completely foreign to the Bible and most of Church history.
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Unfortunately for
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, Titania McGrath is on the case.
The best thing about these Skype TV interviews is we can be on the lookout for problematic material on politicians’ bookshelves.
I’m compiling a database of MPs who might be reading beyond the scope of permitted opinions.
Report any suspicious books to me. I’ll do the rest.
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@Vermeullarmine
@mlbitton
@jordanlperkins
Deepening ignorance of history. No standard of comparison btw present and past. The chart doesn't show the almost complete disappearance of non-contemporary history. People have no clue how much smarter, better read, their grandparents were.
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IMHO our current predicament is not the result of a political theory. It's the Sallustian cycle: too much power and wealth lead inevitably to moral decline. As Petrarch said, good fortune is more dangerous to the soul than bad.
Is our current predicament a logical result of classical liberalism?
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After teaching large undergraduate classes for a few years I realized that at least 20% of my students did not have a sense of humor and an even larger percentage didn't understand irony. Swift would have died in obscurity in our sober age.
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Why school choice and classical education is the best way to reform American schools.
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@Reinsch84
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After the Paris Commune of 1870, the Basilica of Sacré Coeur was built overlooking Paris' most rebellious neighborhood. What shall we build in Seattle after CHAZ/CHOP is laid to rest?
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@JeremyTate41
@soren_schwab
C. S. Lewis said of one couple, I've forgotten now their names, who fought with each other non-stop and got married 'so as to do so more conveniently.'
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Burke's famous quote - to make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely - works for schools too.
Beauty - in 2013 Veritas moved and acquired a beautiful and historic campus on the northside of Richmond. Everything from the architecture to the performing arts draws students into the beauty that ultimately points them to Christ.
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@EdmundSmirk
Perhaps the problem is the tendency of Western democrats to identify all monarchy with tyranny? Goes back to Herodotus' debate on constitutions. In fact constitutional monarchy has a good claim to be the most successful form of govt in the modern world
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