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Thomas Storck
Thomas Storck has taught history at Christendom College and philosophy at Mt. Aloysius College. He holds an M.A. from St. John’s College with additional studies in history at Bluffton College and in economics at the USDA Graduate School in Washington, D.C. Mr. Storck is a member of the editorial board of
The Chesterton Review
and is the author of
The Catholic Milieu
,
Christendom and the West
, and
Foundations of a Catholic Political Order
. His latest book is
From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond: The Long, Jagged Trail to a Postmodern Void
.
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Art
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1697
Art, Beauty, and Purpose
by
Thomas Storck
We are so accustomed to regarding the fine arts as simply a means to pursue or attain the beautiful in the abstract, that we forget that for long centuries there was a close connection between the arts and some public purpose...