One of the nice-sounding and disaster-creating policies of the past few years is the insistence that “harm reduction” is superior to enforcing laws against illegal drug use. Who doesn’t wish that addicts could be helped to lead safer, healthier, and less crime-ridden lives and hurried along the path to recovery? I certainly don’t want to […]
The author is in Australia. UNFORTUNATELY, much of the Western world has been blindsided by the smoke-and-mirrors approach to science, an arm-waving ‘never mind the quality, feel the width’ approach which has sent many governments dashing down a ‘net zero’ path muttering all sorts of fairy stories. One of these stories is that renewable sources of energy […]
There is more to Southern life than moonlight and magnolia. It presumed, in fact, an affection for the literal world justified by its origin, history, and destiny, infused with its own providentially given meaning and value. It was not a perfect society, to be sure. But it had at its core something which deserves respect. […]
Myth, J.R.R. Tolkien thought, can convey the sort of profound truth that is intransigent to description or analysis in terms of facts and figures. But, Tolkien admitted, myth can be dangerous if it remains pagan. Therefore, one must sanctify it. To enter faerie—that is, a sacramental and liturgical understanding of creation—is to open oneself to […]
Fantasy shows us ourselves in the light of the fullness of the natural and supernatural reality in which we find ourselves. Does so-called fantasy literature have any relevance to the so-called real world? Such a question is worth asking and indeed answering but can only be addressed if we have a clear understanding of what […]
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