The Joy of the Truth

A Lost Art You may have heard (perhaps even from me) that the family meal has become and endangered species, despite the fact that studies show very strongly that eating together as a family is an important way to keep children actively engaged in family...

The virtue of prudence gives rise to the virtue of "memory" - the habit of learning from our mistakes. The media and our decidedly anti-catholic culture continue to try to place blame on Pope Benedict and the bishops for the sex scandals. People who look...

May is the month for students to look forward to graduation and the approach of the end of the year. The classroom tends to take on an air of spring lightheartedness mixed with impatience for summer vacation. As a student I actually enjoyed this time of...

Fairytales and children's books are often the targets of criticism by those who fear indoctrination from the Right or from the Left. The essay Children of the Left, Unite by Caleb Crain is a case in point. While Crain attacks such claims from the Right,...

Since the writings of Aristotle (and probably before), humankind has assumed that human nature was an objective reality, and that certain things were good for us as human beings and other things were not good for us. This assumption extended to human...