David Breitenbeck is a professional writer, Catholic traditionalist, and fiction enthusiast. He is the author of several books, including The Ten Commandments of Murder and The Wisdom of Walt Disney.
If you ask why you love someone or something, you may give reasons (“She’s so sweet and so lovely!” “He’s so strong, so honest”), but the real, proper response – which it is important to understand whether or not it is directly stated – is simply “because you are yourself.”
This year's Vatican nativity scene has stoked the ire and elicited mockery from people all over the world. Clearly it is just bad art, but there is something more to it than that. Why is the "work of art" so bad?
Behind every human structure, behind every technology, every law, every regulation, practice, tradition, and safeguard, you only ever find a human face.
If you are feeling that history seems to be repeating itself as we watch riots and protests continuing unabated around the country, you are not wrong. At the core of the social disorder, now and in the past, is the same struggle between moral vigilance and moral compromise.
The Broken Home fallacy depends upon a fairly simplistic either-or understanding of morality; either someone is a thoroughly bad person or he is an innocent victim. A more mature, traditional understanding of morality has it otherwise.
The panic over the Coronavirus brought the world to a standstill. As we are slow emerging from the lockdowns, now is the perfect time to ask, "What did we really accomplish?"
Rudyard Kipling's epic poem Gunga Din, as with so many other works of the past, may not go over so well in our Progressively-minded era. But it should be read and remembered because not was it progressive for its time, but it also offers an insight in to the paucity of modern Progressive thought.
In these two famous paintings, we see more than just two differing depictions of the same subject. We see the essential differences between modernism and traditionalism.
Hate speech laws are self-contradictory and dangerous. There is no way to apply them fairly or consistently, and no one would actually benefit--except the state.
