Van Gogh, Field with poppies

Saint Philippe, Père bien-aimé de l’Oratoire ! Nous nous mettons sous votre protection.

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

‘Here, then, is a recipe for a civil war — in all its ethnic, sectarian, and ideological dimensions.’ What’s America’s next move? Read Sohrab Ahmari 👇 buff.ly/ZHA760E

Elizabeth Anscombe: “It was the insistence on unconditional surrender that was the root of all evil. The connection between such a demand and the need to use the most ferocious methods of warfare will be obvious. And in itself the proposal of an unlimited objective in war is

American Sublime

'The Path to the Lighthouse' by Jo Grundy

“There we would always find jovial companions, for the country is a rich and beautiful one where carefree leisure abounds and wit and high spirits are the coin of the realm.”

Fairly certain Earth’s magnetosphere is an angel

Best American authors are New Yorkers. Southerners are second. New Englanders and Californians can’t really catch-up.

Alfred Zoff Bauerngarten in der Oststeiermark c. 1918

Jan Minařík Staré ústí Botiče 1905

The true Houellebecqian moment: an obese defense establishment so far removed from the suffering of war that it can only envision it as an epic video game bombing a country whose people respond to the bombs by fasting and gathering in the streets to pray for martyrdom.

Netanyahu’s nightly phone call with Trump

El que reza es consciente de sus propios límites, no mata ni amenaza con la muerte. En cambio, está sometido a la muerte quien ha dado la espalda al Dios vivo, para hacer de sí mismo y de su propio poder el ídolo mudo, ciego y sordo (Sal 115,4-8), al cual sacrificar todo valor y

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another.

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