The Geek Menace to The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien’s work has long been the subject of fandom, but this has been a net negative for his literature’s reception and interpretation.
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The Hobbit: An Answer to Turin
In The Hobbit, Tolkien famously depicts a children’s story about an adventuring English bachelor, but beneath this is a meditation on providence.
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We Win, And We Will Win Again
With Dobbs, Roe v Wade has been overturned. The legal status of abortion is back in the hands of the states. What does this mean for the future?
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Tragedy, Providence, and Sin in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Hurin
Known as probably Tolkien’s darkest work, The Children of Hurin illustrates well the relationship between sin, providence, and tragedy.
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On Intuition and Knowing God
In order to love God, we must know Him, at least to the degree we are capable. To what extent does Our Lady affect our knowledge of God?
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REVIEW: The Virgin Shall Give Birth – Fr. John Lawrence M. Polis, FI (Academy of the Immaculate, 2022)
Fr. Polis offers a detailed overview of the Scotistic doctrines associated with the Virgin Birth in this eminently readable but thorough volume.
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Ideas Are Not Defeated By Better Ideas – Part IV: Execution
With our conclusion, we address how liberalism uses violence to legitimize the ideas of its elites, and how this is undone.
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Ideas Are Not Defeated By Better Ideas – Part III: Identity
With part three, we define liberal belief and identity with respect to the managerial revolution and the technical society.
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Ideas Are Not Defeated By Better Ideas – Part II: Conditioning
With Part 2, we continue our analysis of the liberal belief in the free market of ideas, this time on how social conditioning affects minds, cultures, and movements.
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Ideas Are Not Defeated By Better Ideas – Part I: Engagement
Liberalism and the free market of ideas are practically synonymous, but are they realities? In Part 1of 3, we approach how we cooperate with ideas interiorly in order to orient our understanding of liberalism.
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