Inspirational little quotes pop up all the time on social media platforms. Here’s one that that was making the rounds on Twitter recently: “People should only profit to the extent they make other peoples lives better.” — Charles Koch My…
Category: Culture
G.K.C. as M.C. is a collection of 37 book introductions written by G.K. Chesterton, selected and edited by J.P. de Fonseka (an interesting character himself). The introductions span from 1903 to 1929, and cover all sorts of book, primarily fiction, biography…
With the world awash in bad news, I was delighted to learn that science has just proclaimed cheese to be good for you. For years science insisted that cheese clogged your arteries and would kill you in five to 75…
Everyone knows our system of justice is based on the adversary system, in which two opposing advocates plead their case before an impartial judge. The advocates pull all the stops, within established ethical boundaries, to win their case. Out of…
I admire people who would rather do good than feel good. Some such people become saints. Saint Teresa of Calcutta was an activist par excellence. She felt compassion for the poorest of the poor and weakest of the weak —…
For me, the last straw came in 1996, when Baltimore Oriole star Roberto Alomar spat in the face of the home plate umpire after a called third strike. Rumors of drug abuse, the infamous player strike of 1994, and the…
There is a big difference between license and freedom, although many people use these words interchangeably and have only a hazy idea of what they mean by either one. Freedom empowers an individual to do the right things. License is doing…
Those not well acquainted with the Catholic Church may be surprised to learn this supremely hierarchical organization has as one of its most important structural principles the concept of subsidiarity. Here are a few passages from the Catechism of the…
“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.” — Vladimir Lenin “The press is our chief ideological weapon.” — Nikita Krushchev “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of…
Leo Tolstoy strove for something few artists attempt. He tried to live a moral life — so much so that in his later years he renounced his earlier novels, novels considered by many to be the finest ever written. He…