NO ONE outside the White House and a handful of top Democratic and Republican leaders knows the full extent of Joe Biden’s control of his own presidency. Ordinary mortals (aka voters) must rely for evidence of his senility on what they see on television during Biden’s unavoidable public appearances. Even then, the loyal media cover […]
Ora et labora.… “Pray and work.” This is the motto of the Rule of St. Benedict, written in 516 by the famous founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia. For fifteen centuries Benedictine monks have lived their lives according to this motto, performing manual labor and praying to God. Many laypeople have similarly taken this […]
In 1885 Oscar Wilde wrote “The Truth of Masks,” in which he claimed that there was no such thing in art as a universal truth. Attitude, he wrote, was everything. The truth, or otherwise, of masks is crucial to any understanding of Wilde’s complex and conflicted character. His public persona, cultivated and constructed from his […]
Before we get too carried away, I should point out that the article title is satire. Or at least it’s partly satire. The Big Apple was named the “Best City in the World,” but not by the Church of Satan. (They have yet to weigh in on the question to my knowledge.) Instead, Gotham had […]
RISHI Sunak flew to Ukraine a few days ago to sign an agreement for ‘security co-operation’ and ‘a hundred-year partnership’. This is in a context where the former head of the British Army is warning that our armed forces are so shrunken that we invite a 1930s-style disaster. What is the justification for such a foreign relations development? […]
IN HIS seminal 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that science is not an objective form of knowledge by which scientists reveal the laws of the natural world, rather it could be thought of as a social institution, where scientific discourse emerges through the dynamics of the personalities involved, the influence of social […]
WHILE much of the world celebrates Christmas, it is of course a particularly special time for those who have a faith in Jesus Christ. This is no less true for believers in Plateau State, Nigeria, who a few weeks ago were greatly looking forward to commemorating the birth of their Lord and Saviour. Instead, a […]
The “experts,” of course, are selected by the World Economic Forum, which just so happens to run the annual gathering of the transnational elite in Davos, Switzerland. I and countless others have written extensively about the WEF; they are the “you must eat bugs to save the environment” types. They just published their 2024 “Global […]
Team USA hockey won the World Junior Championship over the weekend. The championship is sweet enough on its own. However, there is another element to the story that is warming hearts across the country. The team sang the National Anthem when it was played following the team’s victory. The American players singing their national anthem […]
Because life often comes at you very fast, the cleaning of a khaki couch, like the cleansing of Augean stables, is a task that often waits for a hero’s journey. Or at least a lot of free time. This trembling period of early Covid insanity was one such time in which I felt both impulses. […]
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