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Defeating Edward Said & The Politics Of Partisan Passion
In the intervening years before the Bush administration committed political and national capital in promoting Democracy in Iraq through invasion, President Bush spent many personal hours with two distinct men, discussing Islam, Medieval Islam and the intrinsic cultural receptivity Islam … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Conservatism, International Relations, Islam, Middle East Peace, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, Terrorism
Tagged ASMEA, Bernard Lewis, Bush, Conscience, Edward Said, Fouad Ajami, freedom, Iraq, Medieval Islam, MESA, Partisan Politics, Passion, Said
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Rocco Buttiglione: The Work That Was John Paul The Great
It is simply not possible to speak of greatness without referring to Karol Wojtyla (pronounced Why-tee-wah), otherwise known as John Paul II. No other person than Rocco Buttiglione, Professor of politics, social ethics and economics at the International Academy for … Continue reading
The Promise Of Secular Life: Dystopic Mania For A Shapeless Freedom
Most Catholics can remember when Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II) began criticizing the foundations of our capitalist ethic in admonishing the wests embrace of materialism. He challenged us to become more by having less. As a poet he understood the … Continue reading
Karol Wojtyla: The Challenge of the Enlightenment & The Death of Kant
The vast majority of Catholics simply do not understand a very serious truth about their own faith: it fell to the Church to take up the challenge posed by the Enlightenment, namely, the nature, authority and scope of reason. After … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Paul II, Kant, Morality, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Theology
Tagged Enlightenment, freedom, Hegel, Kant, Mill, Morality, Pope John Paul II
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Christ & Liberalism: Politics Of Grace
“Only a high Christology yields a true anthropology in which the liberal tendency to place freedom and truth in tension is unmasked and overcome, in which what freedom is for and what authentic liberation is, are revealed. It is here … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Christ, Christology, freedom, liberalism
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