And where is the USA????? =========== By Robert R. Reilly WSJ Aug. 20, 2015 7:19 p.m. Recently I saw a riveting new play, “My Report to the World: The Story of Jan Karski.” In 1943 Karski, a member of the Polish Catholic underground, was the first eyewitness to the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi concentration camp to reach the U.S. He sought to... Read more
Archive for the ‘Western Civilization’ Category
Exterminating Christians in the Middle East
August 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Religious Persecution, Western CivilizationMagna Carta
June 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationNot a surprise that the New York Times has this as their Quote of the Day. History being re-interpreted to their liking. The West is Bad. ====== QUOTATION OF THE DAY (from NYT) The myth of Magna Carta lies at the whole origin of our perception of who we are as an English-speaking people, freedom-loving people who’ve lived with a degree... Read more
Obama’s Mideast Vacuum
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationAnother “total disaster” if you want my opinion. =========== March 26, 2015 7:21 p.m. An abiding goal of President Obama’s foreign policy has been to reduce America’s role in the Middle East, in the belief that it would lead to greater stability and serve U.S. interests. Has a policy ever been so thoroughly repudiated in so short a time? Mr. Obama has succeeded... Read more
The Study of Military History
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Military, Western CivilizationThe topic as been purged from US university curricula at our peril. ============ From remarks by Lewis E. Lehrmanat the New-York Historical Society on March 23, when the $50,000 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History was awarded to Alexander Watson’s “Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I” (Basic Books, 2014): The study of military history has in fact been purged from... Read more
Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, The Right, Western CivilizationI couldn’t agree more with Mr. Scalia. And I consider myself way on the conservative end of the scale. We don’t diss math because white collar criminals use it. We don’t speak against sex because some men rape women. Why don’t we think and discuss liberal education the same way? ======= By Christopher J. Scalia March 27, 2015 6:07 p.m. ET Dismissing the... Read more
Fighting to Keep Catholic Schools Catholic
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Religious Persecution, Western CivilizationWorth the read. And worth taking a stand for private institutions. ========== By Ryan T. Anderson And Leslie Ford March 5, 2015 7:09 p.m. ET San Franciscans are currently debating a simple question: Should the government respect the right of Catholic schools to be authentically Catholic? San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone thinks so. But eight California senators and assemblymen sent the archbishop a letter last... Read more
