Americans don’t suffer from amnesia. We prefer it. Memory shapes who we are as individuals, a nation, and a culture. But we define ourselves as a “new order of ages.” Those words are stamped directly on America’s Great Seal. Thus, Americans…
Americans don’t suffer from amnesia. We prefer it. Memory shapes who we are as individuals, a nation, and a culture. But we define ourselves as a “new order of ages.” Those words are stamped directly on America’s Great Seal. Thus, Americans…
Outright Love for This Land Robert Royal In Magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo invokes the Biblical story of Nehemiah rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem as a poignant alternative to the Tower of Babel’s effort to reach Heaven without God. It’s a good…
The historian Henry Adams once described politics as “the systematic organization of hatreds,” and that’s often where we seem to be in these last days before our nation’s 250th birthday. As a Wall Street Journal column noted earlier this week,…
On a cool October evening some years back, a young woman – let’s call her Jenny, age 18 – checked into St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica and gave birth to a baby boy. Her friends had urged her to have an abortion. So did her boyfriend, Jack,…
Most of us live at least part of our lives on autopilot. Most of us also, sooner or later, stumble across Albert Einstein’s famous warning: “Doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results, is the definition of…
Rome, if not quite the “Eternal City,” is nearly 2,800 years old and counting. I first encountered it in the 1970s, visiting my wife’s uncle, a priest who served in the Congregation (now the Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith. What I…
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