The image that graces this Alan Jacobs at Harper’s Magazine article detailing “[t]he death of the mythical method” “by figures with strange names like Barthes and Derrida” — Yesterday’s Men.
Ora Pro Nobis…
Mary Immaculate, Patroness of the United States
“[T]he Virgin still remained and remains the most intensely and the most widely and the most personally felt, of all characters, divine or human or imaginary, that ever existed among men… In no well-regulated community, under a proper system of police, could the Virgin feel at home, and the same thing may be said of most other saints as well as sinners.” — Henry Adams, self-described “conservative Christian anarchist,” a grandson and great-grandson of presidents, “with Heaven knew how many Puritans and Patriots behind him.”
Weltanschauung
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.” — G.K. Chesterton
“To see in Catholicism one religion among others, one system among others, even if it be added that it is the only true religion, the only system that works, is to mistake its very nature, or at least to stop at the threshold. Catholicism is religion itself.” — Henri-Marie Cardinal de Lubac, in Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
Like Nicolás Gómez Dávila, whom Martin Mosebach said understood “the Catholic Church, which he did not regard as simply one of several Christian confessions, but as the great collecting tank of all religions, as the heiress of all paganism, as the still living original religion.”
“The Gospel revelation alone has permitted us to succeed in reaching a coherent interpretation of myth and ritual and of human culture in its entirety…. The resurrection of Christ crowns and finishes both the subversion and the unmasking of mythology, of archaic ritual, of everything that insures the foundation and perpetuation of human cultures. The Gospels reveal everything that human beings need to understand their moral responsibility with regard to the whole spectrum of violence in human history and to all the false religions.” — René Girard in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Politics
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“In pre-imperial America, conservatives objected to war and empire out of jealous regard for personal liberties, a balanced budget, the free enterprise system, and federalism. These concerns came together under the umbrella of the badly misunderstood America First Committee, the largest popular antiwar organization in U.S. history. The AFC was formed in 1940 to keep the United States out of a second European war that many Americans feared would be a repeat of the first. Numbering eight hundred thousand members who ranged from populist to patrician, from Main Street Republican to prairie socialist, America First embodied and acted upon George Washington’s Farewell Address counsel to pursue a foreign policy of neutrality.” ─ Bill Kauffman in Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
“Libertarian isolationism draws its adherents from both the left and the right. According to the libertarian isolationist interpretation of history, the U.S. changed from a decentralized republic into a militarized, authoritarian empire in the late 19th century, when the Spanish-American War made the U.S. a colonial power and trusts and cartels took over the economy. Every president since McKinley, they believe, has been a tool of a self-aggrandizing crony capitalist oligarchy, which exaggerated the threats of Imperial and Nazi Germany and Japan and the Soviet Union and communist China and now of Islamist terrorism in order to regiment American society and divert resources to the bloated ‘military-industrial complex.’ If the libertarian isolationists had their way, the U.S. would abandon foreign alliances, dismantle most of its military, and return to a 19th-century pattern of decentralized government and an economy based on small businesses and small farms.” ─ Michael Lind in The five worldviews that define American politics
Economics
“We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.” ─ Wilhelm Röpke
Sources
Aleteia
The American Conservative
Antiwar.com
Arts & Letters Daily
Big Pulpit
Catholic Courier
Catholic News Agency
Catholic World Report
Chronicles Magazine
Crisis Magazine
EarthSky
EurekaAlert! Science News
LifeSite
Lew Rockwell
National Catholic Register
RT
Taki’s Magazine
The Unz Review
Zero Hedge
Choral Ensembles
Apollo5
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Collegium Marianum
Ensemble Pro Victoria
Fair Oriana
The Gesualdo Six
Harpa Dei
Intrada Ensemble
The Mancunian Consort
The Marian Consort
Nederlands Kamerkoor
The Sixteen
Stile Antico
The Tenebrae Choir
TENET Vocal Artists
VOCES8
Music Channels
AVROTROS Klassiek
BR-KLASSIK
Deep End Sessions
DW Classical Music
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
ЛУЧШАЯ ХОРОВАЯ МУЗЫКА
Klassik | SWR Kultur
Muzyka w Raju
NDR Klassik
Netherlands Bach Society
Podium Klassiek
Südtirol in concert
Warner Classics
WDR Klassik
Western AF
Wigmore Hall
Reference
The Catholic Current
Catholic Encyclopedia (1917 edition)
Catholic Liturgical Calendar
Conservapedia
Examination of Conscience: Mortal Sins
Examination of Conscience: Venial Sins
Fr. Spitzer’s Universe
FBI — Table 43
Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Magis Center
RocWiki
Sing the Hours
The Station of the Cross
Urban Dictionary
WION
WRUR | Different Radio
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Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan by Franklin Hiram King
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man by Henri de Lubac
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard
The End of the Modern World by Romano Guardini
The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement by Justin Raimondo
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud by Philip Rieff
A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market by Wilhelm Röpke
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Mark Sedgwick
The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Mary Immaculate, Patroness of the United States
“[T]he Virgin still remained and remains the most intensely and the most widely and the most personally felt, of all characters, divine or human or imaginary, that ever existed among men… In no well-regulated community, under a proper system of police, could the Virgin feel at home, and the same thing may be said of most other saints as well as sinners.” — Henry Adams, self-described “conservative Christian anarchist,” a grandson and great-grandson of presidents, “with Heaven knew how many Puritans and Patriots behind him.”
Weltanschauung
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.” — G.K. Chesterton
“To see in Catholicism one religion among others, one system among others, even if it be added that it is the only true religion, the only system that works, is to mistake its very nature, or at least to stop at the threshold. Catholicism is religion itself.” — Henri-Marie Cardinal de Lubac, in Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
Like Nicolás Gómez Dávila, whom Martin Mosebach said understood “the Catholic Church, which he did not regard as simply one of several Christian confessions, but as the great collecting tank of all religions, as the heiress of all paganism, as the still living original religion.”
“The Gospel revelation alone has permitted us to succeed in reaching a coherent interpretation of myth and ritual and of human culture in its entirety…. The resurrection of Christ crowns and finishes both the subversion and the unmasking of mythology, of archaic ritual, of everything that insures the foundation and perpetuation of human cultures. The Gospels reveal everything that human beings need to understand their moral responsibility with regard to the whole spectrum of violence in human history and to all the false religions.” — René Girard in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Politics
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“In pre-imperial America, conservatives objected to war and empire out of jealous regard for personal liberties, a balanced budget, the free enterprise system, and federalism. These concerns came together under the umbrella of the badly misunderstood America First Committee, the largest popular antiwar organization in U.S. history. The AFC was formed in 1940 to keep the United States out of a second European war that many Americans feared would be a repeat of the first. Numbering eight hundred thousand members who ranged from populist to patrician, from Main Street Republican to prairie socialist, America First embodied and acted upon George Washington’s Farewell Address counsel to pursue a foreign policy of neutrality.” ─ Bill Kauffman in Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
“Libertarian isolationism draws its adherents from both the left and the right. According to the libertarian isolationist interpretation of history, the U.S. changed from a decentralized republic into a militarized, authoritarian empire in the late 19th century, when the Spanish-American War made the U.S. a colonial power and trusts and cartels took over the economy. Every president since McKinley, they believe, has been a tool of a self-aggrandizing crony capitalist oligarchy, which exaggerated the threats of Imperial and Nazi Germany and Japan and the Soviet Union and communist China and now of Islamist terrorism in order to regiment American society and divert resources to the bloated ‘military-industrial complex.’ If the libertarian isolationists had their way, the U.S. would abandon foreign alliances, dismantle most of its military, and return to a 19th-century pattern of decentralized government and an economy based on small businesses and small farms.” ─ Michael Lind in The five worldviews that define American politics
Economics
“We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.” ─ Wilhelm Röpke
Sources
Choral Ensembles
Music Channels
Reference
Must-read Library
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