Introducing Christian Meditation (Feb 23, 2025 00:37)
The whole point of authentic Christian meditation is not just to come to know and love ...
Make America Social Again (Feb 23, 2025 00:01)
Solitude. It is a word that is coming to define the 21st century, so says Derek Thompso...
Saving the Appearances - excellent audiobook version read by Aaron Parker (Feb 22, 2025 17:01)
At what point in The Lord of the Rings did Frodo claim the One Ring for himself? (Feb 22, 2025 11:42)
Bruce Stirling Rejects the Censorship Engine (Feb 22, 2025 03:54)
Hacker culture bypassed politics for a morality of function alone. This reduced life fr...
The Skaldic Bard (Feb 21, 2025 16:06)
A primary aim of my work is to counter the widespread misconception that Christianity s...
Farewell Address to the Continental Army (Feb 21, 2025 16:00)
To the various branches of the Army the General takes this last and solemn opportunity ...
Wine, Women and Whatever (Feb 21, 2025 15:03)
“For where ’mong women The grape’s sweet poison mingles with the feast, Nought holy may...
Scientific Consensus (Feb 21, 2025 11:32)
The term “consensus” like “collective” is loaded because half o...
Dirty Work: What about the "necessary evils" of civilization? (Feb 21, 2025 08:16)
Towards a Middle Earth Metaphysical (Feb 20, 2025 20:17)
Whether they be fairies, gnomes, cryptids, aliens, or elves, what are these creatures a...
“Napoleon”: The Rediscovery of a Cinematic Masterpiece (Feb 20, 2025 19:00)
There remain few attempts in the world of cinema so daring as French director Abel Ganc...
Democracy and Autocracy Among the North American Indians (Feb 20, 2025 12:36)
Space Semites (Feb 20, 2025 11:32)
If you are an honest person, you will deal with doubt, which is the way nature prompts ...
Recognizing "Entropy" (change, death) as The Problem - there have been three suggested Answers (Feb 20, 2025 11:22)
February 20 – Leaders and future nobility appear in times of desperate distress (Feb 20, 2025 05:10)
Andreas Hofer A patriot and soldier, born at St. Leonhard in Passeyrthale, Tyrol, 22 No...
February 21 – He Fearlessly Denounced Homosexual Clergy (Feb 20, 2025 05:02)
St. Peter Damian Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, born at Ravenna “five ...
Founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family (Feb 20, 2025 04:58)
Pierre-Joseph Chaumonot Jesuit missionary in New York and Canada, Born near Châtillon-s...
February 21 – Cornelius van Zierikzee (Feb 20, 2025 04:53)
Fr. Cornelius van Zierikzee Born at Zierikzee (whence he takes his surname), a town in ...
February 22 – Blessed Émilie d’Oultremont de Warfusée (Feb 20, 2025 04:48)
(October 11, 1818 – February 22, 1878) Belgian nun. She founded the Sisters of Mary Rep...
February 23 – St. Polycarp’s martyrdom (Feb 20, 2025 04:44)
St. Polycarp’s martyrdom Polycarp’s martyrdom is described in a letter from the Church ...
Get Thee to a Nunnery! (Feb 19, 2025 19:58)
Get thee to a nunnery is a short but perplexing phrase. The Nunnery Scene (3.1) in Shak...
Where in the World Are We Going? (Feb 19, 2025 19:00)
First of all, a conservative is acutely aware of the flawed nature of man. The capacity...
Reprobates (Feb 19, 2025 11:32)
Someone introduced this concept the other day: the notion of reprobates, or people who ...
The Litmus Tests are really learning opportunities (Feb 19, 2025 09:26)
Christian Halls: The Next American Renaissance? (Feb 19, 2025 00:10)
America’s Christian culture began to erode at the turn of the 20th century, with the ri...
The Silence That Gives Life (Feb 18, 2025 22:00)
We all know the dangers of too much noise, the dissipating distraction of too much chat...
Cutting the Workweek, and Cutting Who Is Employed (Feb 18, 2025 11:32)
Distinguishing between jobs and work provides us with an important observation: work is...
Different starting points, foreign nations (Feb 18, 2025 08:48)
Luigi Mangione’s America (Feb 18, 2025 00:41)
The resort to violence has become the characteristic American response to a world that ...
Richard Weaver’s Conservatism of Affirmation & Hope (Feb 17, 2025 22:00)
Against a modern age that denied notions of meaning, purpose, and truth, Richard Weaver...
The scope of aphorisms (Feb 17, 2025 18:13)
The North American Indian Declaration of Independence: A Darwinian Lockean Liberal Perspective (Feb 17, 2025 13:10)
Happy Birthday Orthosphere (Feb 17, 2025 12:36)
The Orthosphere is today thirteen years old, having launched on Feb 17, 2012. Since th...
Mind-Body Dualism and Metaphysical Dualism (Feb 17, 2025 11:32)
Enduring questions humans may never answer: (a) what is information? (b) where does con...
Is a real (or feigned) resurgence of Secular Right "common sense" politics, en route to the needful spiritual awakening? (Feb 17, 2025 08:48)
RCR – Part III, Chapter 1 & 2 – TWENTY YEARS AFTER (Feb 17, 2025 05:05)
PART III Revolution and Counter-Revolution TWENTY YEARS AFTER In 1976 the author was as...
Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (Feb 17, 2025 05:00)
During Lent we recall the duties of every Christian to apply themselves more fervently ...
February 17 – Last Martyr under Elizabeth I (Feb 17, 2025 04:55)
Ven. William Richardson (Alias Anderson.) Last martyr under Queen Elizabeth; b. accordi...
February 17 – He burned the pagan temple (Feb 17, 2025 04:50)
St. Theodore of Amasea Surnamed Tyro (Tiro), not because he was a young recruit, but be...
February 17 – He suffered a three-fold death agony (Feb 17, 2025 04:45)
Blessed Francis Regis Clet A Lazarist missionary in China; b. 1748, martyred, 18 Feb., ...
February 18 – Confronted the Emperor and annulled the Robber Council of Ephesus (Feb 17, 2025 04:40)
St. Flavian Bishop of Constantinople, date of birth unknown; died at Hypaepa in Lydia, ...
February 18 – Fra Angelico brought part of heaven to earth (Feb 17, 2025 04:35)
Blessed Fra Angelico A famous painter of the Florentine school, born near Castello di V...
February 19 – St. Conrad of Piacenza (Feb 17, 2025 04:30)
St. Conrad of Piacenza Hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis, date of birth uncertai...
Romanée-Conti: symbol of tradition and nobility (Feb 17, 2025 04:25)
We should not be surprised that a single bottle of Romanée-Conti sometimes sells for $1...
Who is to Blame for the Aliens’ Alienation? (Feb 16, 2025 23:23)
“How could I have identified myself with Clovis, that good, naive and glamorous ancesto...
How Should We Rank the American Presidents? (Feb 16, 2025 23:00)
Traditional rankings of the American presidents ask whether our chief executives did wh...
Rush Limbaugh, Defender of Life (Feb 16, 2025 22:00)
As I listened, some 16 years ago, to Rush Limbaugh defend Terry Schiavo's life and all ...
The lesson of so-called AI: Most of Man's "thinking" is just "thinking-about", like the abstract symbolic token-juggling of Artificial Intelligence (Feb 16, 2025 10:54)
Why All Advice is Bad (Feb 15, 2025 13:43)
Men are in competition locked, Each strives all goods to gain; And yet most say this is...