By Frederick Woodward When you meet Patrick Kopytek, the first thing you notice about him is the uprightness of his posture. He turns 74 this March, but he doesn’t look it. His blond hair hasn’t grayed out fully and his stance is tall and proud, defying gravity’s relentless drag toward the earth. As he starts to walk, though, he displays a pronounced limp, the result … Continue reading Spartan XIX: Story of a Faithful Soldier
In this Forum interview, Professor of History Paul Rahe sat down with Sophia Mandt to discuss his interactions with renowned academics while an undergraduate, his criticisms of the modern higher education system, and more. In your youth, you had the opportunity to study under well known academics such as Allan Bloom and Donald Kagan. What are some of the most profound or significant things that … Continue reading An Open Forum with Dr. Rahe
By Alethia Diener Her makeup was immaculate. Her hair was swept up in a stunning bun, she wore a skirt and classy heels, and as this young mother sat in front of me in church, her straight back and clenched jaw revealed her desire to be The Mom Who Does Things Right And Is In Control. When her toddlers fussed, she grabbed their tiny wrists … Continue reading “No Bad Parts”: An Augustinian Return to Self Through Wonder
By Andrew Winter As yet we below had heard nothing of the Endtimes, though I remembered perfectly what I had read about it in life. For hell sharpens all things, not least the memory of grief. So we heard Time had begun to limp down the last ridge into its grave, and some said its fate was worse than ours, but we could only imagine, … Continue reading The Tomb Robber
By Frederick Woodward Heroism, by nature, tends toward a tragic dichotomy. All throughout human memory, the pattern has remained relatively fixed. A man attains popular immortality, or else he is forgotten a few generations after he dies. The two conditions are not mutually exclusive — one can precede, or follow the other. Popularized, forgotten, redeemed again — these words sum up the cycle of virtually … Continue reading Forgotten Heroes: The Polish Catholic Men that Shaped the American Revolution
How do you see music in conversation or in relationship with the liberal arts? Is music part of the liberal arts? I would say a very emphatic yes, because it’s one of the original seven. So if we’ve got the trivium and the quadrivium, the trivium are all of the arts of the word—grammar, logic and rhetoric—and they’re geared towards knowledge of the self, and … Continue reading An Interview with Dr. Daniel Kuehler
By Aryn Joy Tomasetti They call me Henry, it’s been two years, and I’m still ten. Kids don’t think about time the way adults do. We don’t count it quickly and we’re not visited by the ghosts from our childhood. We are the ghosts from our childhood; we just haven’t made it to the future yet. All the same, I thought I knew what Dad … Continue reading Out of Play
By Andrew Winter The cold had by now numbed and confused my mind, and I could not deny it. I tried to think only of the food for my love. I had it, packages and packages of it, pound upon pound, piled on the sled. In the near-pitch darkness I was now almost a quarter of the way across the great Blackwisp Lake, eight inches … Continue reading Silence of Water
By Samuel Hilgeman On the Road to Emmaus, two men walk with God: “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself… And their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him” (Luke 24). Reason without worship leads to death. In the modern western world, the great skeptics of the human tradition seek to build … Continue reading Man as Homo-Adorans
By Theodore Hoelker Recently, I took an adventure to Meijer with a few friends. We got there just 10 minutes before closing, with barely enough time for me to buy the cookies I had come for. While we all sat in the car and enjoyed them, I happened to see People magazine in the seat next to me. Intrigued, as I do not often read … Continue reading A Defense of Fashion
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