Plato, Plotinus, and Augustine saw the world as structured, ordered, ascending toward the highest good. Freedom, for them, was not found in the absence of restraint but in the presence of virtue. And this is the vision of freedom America’s founders understood—one that we have nearly lost.
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“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying:...
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The ancient Greeks thought and wrote a lot about what it means to live within a society, bound by shared laws and responsibilities. These classical ideas were vital to our modern understanding of community, duty, and purpose—values that root us in the larger structure of the Republic, just as they did for the ancients.
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In the modern age, we are suffering from a drought. Too many modern trends throw away the past and give no thought for the future. They reject the tunnel given to us by the past and refuse to build another.
But the tunnel of Eupalinos teaches us to protect our water supply
Are we all living in a dystopia? One where we’re all too worried about our own comfort to stand up against bad things that are going on? Are we getting too good at doing nothing – at living, sleeping, working, and entertaining ourselves? To the point where we don’t understand there’s anything more to life?
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After Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the country adopted a law criminalizing the spread of “false information” about its military endeavors….
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At almost 500 years old, the Romans had the longest-lasting republic the world has ever known. As such, it had a violent death. When the Republic
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