Western Civilization

“The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput…. We are careening toward a post-literate society, where myth, intuition, and emotion replace logic, evidence, and science. Nobody needs to bomb us back to the Stone Age; we have decided to walk there ourselves. I am skeptical of this thesis.” - Persuasion

“God hasn’t been removed from the picture; he’s been relocated. Where did God go? There are as many answers as there are people. Consider some conversations I’ve had recently.” - TGC

“At that time, the debate in England raged over whether the King was the law (Rex Lex), or if the law was king (Lex Rex). The debate was over which authority was higher—the king or the law. Was the written law bound to the word of the king, or was the king bound to the law?” - Christ Over All

“ ‘How do we console ourselves?’ wondered Nietzsche some 143 years ago. For an increasing number of young Westerners, the answer appears to be: ‘By bringing God back from the dead.’” - Acton

“Nietzsche was not claiming that God had once existed and no longer did. Rather, he recognized what the loss of God meant as the central reference point for Western life, politics, education, art, architecture, and most other aspects of culture. The death of God had, as he put it, ‘unchained the earth from its sun.’” - Breakpoint

“It isn’t surprising that artifacts from this rich history will be found, but when they are, it’s a good reminder of how Christianity spread. It should also remind us that it’s not so much that Christianity is Western, but that Western culture is at root Christian.” - Breakpoint

“Teaching the Virtues is not only a fine introduction to a conservative tradition animated by a regard for the Permanent Things, but also a promise of more to come. It is the first book published by a new imprint of the Russell Kirk Center, Mecosta House.” - Providence

“ ‘Brain rot’ was Oxford’s word of the year in 2024, defined as ‘the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.’” - TGC

“Some people are misusing ‘civilizational moment’ as a fancy word for the present moment. No, it has a real definition. A civilizational moment is that period, not a day, a period when a civilization loses touch with what made it great.” - Os Guinness

“…in response to Cultural Christians, Lewis would claim that while good-intentioned, the Cultural Christianity movement misses the point of Christ’s message. Those who want Christian Ethics without the Christian faith have turned Jesus into a mere moral teacher, another Historical Jesus, divorced from the Gospel.” - Juicy Ecumenism