A Call to Reform: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children”

By |2023-09-12T18:50:02-05:00September 12th, 2023|Categories: Culture, Justice, Labor/Work, Literature, Poetry, Timeless Essays|

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “The Cry of the Children” recognizes the injustice of the exploitation of child labor, but her protest is not so much against the eternal class struggle as it is against the failures of her culture to remain true to its long-held beliefs. Her poem is thus a call to conserve culture [...]

Thoreau’s Guilty Conscience

By |2023-07-12T00:21:51-05:00July 11th, 2023|Categories: Henry David Thoreau, Justice, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Timeless Essays|

There could be no Henry David Thoreau without a Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson glorified the individual independence of the new American; Thoreau evolved that into a nation-less, anarchic, natural man of subjective conscience. In 1838, Harvard College exiled a young James Russell Lowell to the tutelage of a minister in Concord, Massachusetts, a suspension for [...]

Why Our Legal System Is Failing Us

By |2023-06-09T16:43:29-05:00June 6th, 2023|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Culture, Ethics, Featured, Justice, Politics, Rule of Law, Timeless Essays|

The slow disintegration of our legal system will continue apace until and unless judges, in particular, cease acting as if the legal system they serve either does not need or does not deserve their active support. Americans’ attitudes toward lawyers and the legal system are filled with ironies. We complain that lawyers are money-grubbing sophists [...]

Athena as Founder & Statesman

By |2022-06-10T13:52:50-05:00June 10th, 2022|Categories: Essential, Justice, Literature, Myth, Politics, Religion, Statesman, Timeless Essays|

In the "Oresteia," Aeschylus examines whether a city exists for proper worship of gods or whether it exists for proper cultivation of “that which is most divine in us.” Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join John Alvis, as he considers Aeschylus' views of the polity as embodied by [...]

“John Wick,” Revenge, & Retributive Justice

By |2021-08-24T13:14:47-05:00August 24th, 2021|Categories: David Deavel, Ethics, Film, Justice, Senior Contributors|

I cannot fully accept the world of John Wick. But like the pagan world and the Old Testament’s eye-for-an-eye, I cannot fully reject it either. The world of Wick is a world of senseless violence and also violence that is roughly sensible because it is informed by justice. One of the most enjoyable action movie [...]

A Quiet Killing

By |2021-02-19T20:06:39-06:00February 19th, 2021|Categories: American Republic, Donald Trump, Justice|

For the first time in a very long time, no one is second-guessing the decision by a police officer to use deadly force against an unarmed woman. Why? The storming of the Capitol was criminal and a disgrace. Assaults upon our democratic institutions, whether from the Right or the Left, should never be tolerated. At [...]

Wanted: More University Presidents Like Morton Schapiro

By |2020-10-26T15:57:43-05:00October 26th, 2020|Categories: David Deavel, Education, Justice, Liberal Learning, Senior Contributors, Truth|

Other university presidents, provosts, and deans need to support and emulate President Morton Schapiro of Northwestern University. If they can find the courage to support somebody else standing up against the mob, they might find that they have the courage to stand up to their own mobs and discover that when there is no pursuit [...]

Burke on Monstrous Revolution and Regicide Peace

By |2023-08-10T12:52:00-05:00October 15th, 2020|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Edmund Burke, Europe, Government, History, Justice, Politics, Revolution, Senior Contributors|

Far from creating peace, Edmund Burke contended, the French Revolution had generated the greatest despotism the world had yet seen, politicizing all things and enslaving the vast majority of the population. The Revolution itself was monstrous and had created only monstrous things. Of Edmund Burke’s (1729-1797) four Letters on a Regicide Peace—his final work, written [...]

Systemic Pride Is the Problem

By |2020-10-04T20:15:00-05:00October 4th, 2020|Categories: Equality, Ethnicity, Joseph Pearce, Justice, Love, Modernity, Senior Contributors|

The Marxists advocate Pride and don’t believe in loving their neighbors but in destroying their enemies. They insist that without justice, there will be no peace, but they forget that there will be no justice without love. Without love we have nothing but the systemic pride which rules the world with the spirit of “might [...]

Is Derek Chauvin Truly Guilty?

By |2021-04-20T17:21:34-05:00July 19th, 2020|Categories: Justice, Senior Contributors, Thomas R. Ascik|

The police body-camera video confirms what the autopsy reports show: Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers had to subdue a large man resisting arrest, whose system was overwhelmed by the kind of drugs that routinely cause violence, and who died of a heart attack, not choking or strangulation. Along with the tens of billions of [...]

Is Defunding the Police the Answer?

By |2020-06-22T10:04:04-05:00June 21st, 2020|Categories: American Republic, Community, John Horvat, Justice, Order, Politics|

America needs moral restoration. Without it, society just goes from bad to worse, chasing doomed utopian ideas like defunding the police, and redirecting funds to leftist groups that hate and subvert the traditional family. Trying to solve the problem of policing without moral regeneration and the rebuilding of our families, communities, and Church is an [...]

Juries, Judges, and Justice Thomas on Defamation

By |2019-09-15T22:17:38-05:00September 15th, 2019|Categories: American Republic, Justice, Senior Contributors, Thomas R. Ascik|

This summer saw the resolutions of two high-profile civil lawsuits involving accusations of defamation and libel against two pillars of the media-academic complex. In the suit against hyper-liberal Oberlin College, Ohio state jurors rendered a judgment against their neighbor, the college. In the other case, a lawsuit against The Washington Post, the federal district-court judge [...]

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