The following is taken from Richard H. Popkin’s masterly article: Skepticism and the Counter-Reformation in France. This exploration into the Counter-Reformation in France will attempt to trace and explain one…

What is Tradition? One of the oddest things about religious traditionalists is that it has a rather untraditional meaning of “tradition”. People are often confused between something being very old…

The following is taken from Owen Chadwick’s From Bossuet to Newman. In July 1601 Father Gaspar Hurtado, of the University of Alcala, defended as thesis for his doctorate a number…

The following are Ephraim Radner’s observations on the Roman Catholic reaction to the “heretical” Jansenist miracles. In this particular passage he begins with a discussion of the Roman Bishop, Languet,…

Tao is the beginning of the myriad things, the standard of right and wrong. That being so, the intelligent ruler, by holding to the beginning, knows the source of everything,…

And today, many Chinese people waste little time fuming over British gunboat diplomacy when left in peace by the state’s patriotic education campaign. Ask Beijing taxi-drivers (an overworked, underpaid labour-force…

A Brief Summary of the Proper Distinction between a Republic and a Democracy I think having grasped the proper distinction between a republic and a democracy, and realising that the…

Take up the White Man’s burden– Send forth the best ye breed– Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered…