Dr. Alberto M. Piedra is a Professor Emeritus at IWP. He is Former U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala and Former Chairman, Department of Economics and Business at The Catholic University of America.
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No God, No Civilization: The New Atheism and the Fantasy of Perpetual Progress
What does the world get from God? What does the world lose when it loses reason? For centuries, an aggressive secularism has fought to occupy the place once held by religion in Western society.
Read More from No God, No Civilization: The New Atheism and the Fantasy of Perpetual Progress ›Democracy: The Threat from Relativism
Less than a month ago, my grandson Gordon studying at Eton College in England participated in a relay and decided to cross the treacherous English Channel with three other schoolmates of his.
Read More from Democracy: The Threat from Relativism ›The Spanish Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Case of Forgotten Empathy
Empathy is a concept that—together with tolerance and transparency—seems to have become a required condition for the correct application of domestic and international policy in contemporary American society.
Read More from The Spanish Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Case of Forgotten Empathy ›An Example of a Radical Chic
A few years ago whilst we were spending the summer at my daughter’s home in the Hamptons in Long Island, my son in law, Peter Robison, and my eldest daughter Edita Maria hosted a dinner in honor of the well-known writer Tom Wolfe, who is an innovator, journalist, and prolific critical writer who did not…
Read More from An Example of a Radical Chic ›The Challenge of Efficiency and the Potential Threat of Social Productive Efficiency
Efficiency is concerned with the optimal method of producing goods at the lowest possible cost. In economic terms, Productive efficiency occurs on the production possibility frontier (PPF), where it is impossible to produce more of one good without producing less of another.
Read More from The Challenge of Efficiency and the Potential Threat of Social Productive Efficiency ›The Endemic Challenge of Corruption
“How explain the fact that these calamities have befallen Rome at the hands of certain Christian emperors? Simply by denying the fact. It was not the Christianity of the emperors which brought ruin upon the Empire, rather, it was the vices within the Empire itself.”
Read More from The Endemic Challenge of Corruption ›Felicite De La Mennais and the founding of L’Avenir
The prayer of the Pater Noster: “Thy kingdom come.” As the great French scholar and historian H. Rops reminds us: “Maybe there was much illusion there; perhaps he aimed too high in seeking to bring down the Kingdom of God to earth, and too low in claiming to establish by temporal means that kingdom which…
Read More from Felicite De La Mennais and the founding of L’Avenir ›The Epidemic of Mass Killings in America’s Junior Schools: Misinterpretations of its Causes
The recent bloodbath that took place on February 14, 2018, which cost the lives of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, comes in the wake of similar tragedies all over the country.
Read More from The Epidemic of Mass Killings in America’s Junior Schools: Misinterpretations of its Causes ›The Tragedy of American Education: The Role of John Dewey
The well-known American philosopher John Dewey was probably the most influential of all modern American educationalists whose tendencies towards socialization and secularism are quite apparent in all of his work.
Read More from The Tragedy of American Education: The Role of John Dewey ›Jean Paul Sartre and the intellectual elites in the Paris of the 20th Century
No one should go to Paris without visiting the Quartier Latin in La Rive Gauge, especially the famous café Les Deux Magots and the café de Flore in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of the city.
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