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Hitler as Aesthetic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Check out the interesting book review brought to us by Books and Culture. The book reviewed is a Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics in which Frederic Spotts argues that the “will to power” and aesthetic sensibility of Hitler are […]

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Quentin Tarantino - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I just went on a Quentin Tarantino kick, catching up on his most recent films: Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), and Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004). Before I saw these three films I was convinced that I […]

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Subordinate Complexity

Subordinate Complexity

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Philosophical Writing as an Artform - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I recommend Ralph McInerny’s very short Rhyme and Reason: St. Thomas and Modes of Discourse. It’s the Marquette University Aquinas Lecture for 1981. I’m thinking about it today in relation to literary criticism (a field in which I am less […]

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Response to Selby - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A few thoughts in response to Andrew: Remember that a large percent of college students are at public institutions. (Does anyone know whether a majority are?) Although these schoos still have tuition, costs are highly subsidized by the government. Furthermore, […]

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Required Education: It Lasts Too Long - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In 1575 Michel de Montaigne said, “The boy we would breed has a great deal less time to spare; he owes but the first fifteen or sixteen years of his life to education; the remainder is due to action”. We […]

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Diary of a Country Priest - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

While things are still a bit of a free for all and we’re still sort of hammering down the “vision” of this blog I thought I’d throw out a recommendation. I know most of the members on this blog (who […]

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