Cultural Transparence: Meaning in a Postmodern Age
Cultural Transparence The intense but narrow beam of liberal political principles cannot constitute the meaning of a civilization. There are simply too many questions left unaddressed. Despite…
The Politics of Liberty: Meaning in a Postmodern Age
The Politics of Liberty The summary essence of a liberal political order, which has remained fairly stable up to the present, sounds astonishingly spare. Generations of liberal…
The Preservation Movement and the Culture War
The Forms of the Tradition have lost the background against which they could be understood and now give the impression of something in a museum, guarded by…
Toronto for Beginners
The approach of our annual meeting and friendly suggestion leads me to a few words on Metropolitan Toronto, pronounced "To-rawn-to", also, T'rawna, and "T.O." A minor point…
Mysticism and Space: Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwicih, and The Cloud of Unknowing
Mysticism and Space: Space and Spatiality in the Works of Richard Rolle, The Cloud of Unknowing Author, and Julian of Norwich. Carmel Bendon Davis. Washington D.C.: Catholic…
The Kafka-esque Kommando of Kanada
With respect to Mark Steyn and McLean's magazine and Canadian hate law I have done some digging and what follows might be of interest to those not…
Notre Dame, Farewell
I asked my son, a lawyer and theologian, to comment on Obama's appearance at Notre Dame. He replied promptly and his comments are below. We who graduated…
Modern Views of Plato’s Silence (Part III)
Stanley Rosen Stanley Rosen himself is a grateful student of Leo Strauss who nevertheless announces: "I am in considerable disagreement with Strauss's general program." 115 His dissent…
Modern Views of Plato’s Silence (Part II)
Leo Strauss joins the debate about Platonic silence on the side of Gott-hold Lessing.60 Perhaps he also sides with Friedrich Nietzsche secretly. He opposes Friedrich Schleiermacher and…
Modern Views of Plato’s Silence (Part I)
Plato directly and indirectly cautions his students that he does not communicate with them straightforwardly. To repeat the warnings quoted previously, Plato fiercely denies in his Seventh…
Eros, Wisdom and Silence of Plato (Part II)
Classical and Contemporary Eros In the Theages, Demodocus, a rural landowner and a committed democrat, approaches Socrates with his son Theages in tow. Demodocus is fearful because…
Recovery of the Life of Reason
The unfolding of noetic consciousness in the psyche of the classic philosophers is not an "idea," or a "tradition," but an event in the history of mankind.…