Author: Tim
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Positive “Socialization” Is A Myth
We homeschool, and so we hear occasionally the concern about the “socialization” of homeschoolers. Homeschool families think this concern is silly, of course, and gladly take the debate every time another news story appears about some rotten event in a public school somewhere in America. Which is every minute or so. But I have to…
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Hazlitt: on Government Credit, from “Economics”
[Bold is mine.] But there is a decisive difference between the loans supplied by private lenders and the loans supplied by a government agency. Each private tender risks his own funds. (A banker, it is true, risks the funds of others that have been entrusted to him; but if money is lost he must…
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Trinity, and Mathematicians Are Safe.
…the necessity of a stage of thought where two things are asserted simultaneously with no understanding of their relation. Such a stage of thought is necessary in any advancing discipline.
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Jürgen Habermas: “…and the Christian ethic of love…everything else is idle postmodern talk”
“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic…
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Shape Of Wind In Lilac
The lilac leaf is not interesting aside from the wind, nor is the wind visible aside from the leaf, but the shape of the wind in the lilac will hold me here for hours. It is the dance of the parts with each other, frozen in a moment, that we have the privilege to feel…
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Advent Star, 15 Dec 2012
Against the darkness of this world’s insanity, with a gunman slaughtering 20 children and their teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, I couldn’t take my eyes off the simple silver star. O Come thou Dayspring, come and cheer our spirits by thine advent here.
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Alexis de Tocqueville: “…bribe the public with the public’s money…”
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money. Alexis de Tocqueville
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Thomas Merton: “The Trappist Abbey: Matins”
When the full fields begin to smell of sunrise And the valleys sing in their sleep, The pilgrim moon pours over the solemn darkness Her waterfalls of silence, And then departs, up the long avenue of trees. The stars hide, in the glade, their light, like tears, And tremble where some train runs, lost, Baying…
