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By Thomas V. Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Jan 08, 2021
Happy New Year! It’s time for the annual article in which members of the Catholic Culture staff look back on their reading in the past year and recommend the best, some published in 2020 and some not. Actually, this list is not confined to reading only. You’ll get book recommendations from Jeff Mirus, Phil Lawler and Mike Aquilina; book and film recommendations from James T. Majewski; and book, essay, podcast, music and (way too many) film recommendations from Thomas V. Mirus. Enjoy!
Jeff Mirus
The best books I read in 2020 were all new titles among the books I reviewed on CatholicCulture.org during the course of the year with the exception of the last one, for which this survey will constitute my review. Apparently 2020 was a year in which I was most impressed by authors who increased my spiritual understanding and fueled my spiritual growth, though each in a different way and on a di
Secession and the Myth of Nationalistic Inevitability
This is something I have been seriously reflecting upon for over thirty years. The major problem with secession (.pdf) is two fold and it all relates to the myth of nationalism. It relates to how American history has been taught in schools for numerous decades, putting forth the myth of nationalism; that the history students learn was inevitable, that what happened was the only course of actions that were possible, that there could not have been alternative consequential paths or results from the inevitable chain of events as taught. Combine this inevitability of historical “forces” and down play human agency or the impact of individual persons shaping history and what we get in school and the media shaping our most basic elemental perceptions is a rank unquestioning determinism of nationalistic inevitability.
on his conceptions of liberty, equality and community. tocqueville is best known for his two-volume work democracy in america, based on his travels around america in the 1830s. almost barone was a guest lecturer at the citadel military college in charleston, south carolina in a course called the conservative intellectual tradition in america taught by the professor mallory factor. this is just under two hours. able. well, thank you very much. it s an honor to be here, and a special honor to be asked to speak on the fra jiflt ordered liberty and to speak on alexis de tocqueville. and in rereading tocqueville in preparation for this lecture, i began to think that he was something like mozart, that i was, that i was in the presence of a mind that was so far above the level of almost anyone else in history, that you know he almost works no comparison with anybody else. you can listen to the music of mozart and it sounds pleasant and melodic and know for the. but if you really
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