Common Sense

“Today, if you are resolved to flout the obvious requirements of common sense and decide to plunge the world into obscurantism, you naturally invoke the justification of science.” – Michael Polanyi

Immigration & Wages

“Flooding the labor market with mass immigration has benefited elites. It keeps the costs of their Uber, their DoorDash, their organically harvested asparagus, and their neighborhood restaurant artificially low. But the deregulation of the labor supply also undercuts...

The Ordinary

“One should ‘cherish your earthly toil as the breath of grace’ and value ‘the ordinary’ and ‘the normal’ in place of Sisyphean visions of progress or self-perfection.” – Sebastian Milbank

Tradition

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler

Lincoln’s Sorrow

“The President [Abraham Lincoln] bowed his head and with a look of sadness I never can forget he said, ‘I shall never be glad any more.’ All severity had passed from his face. He seemed looking backward, and heartward, and for a moment to forget he was not alone, a...