Tag: relativism

My Teacher Says I’m Special

My Teacher Says I’m Special

[ 7 ] April 12, 2013 AD |

Growing up, my school assemblies would always talk about self-esteem. It seems that elementary schools in the late 80’s and 90’s (sorry for my older readers-I don’t mean to rub it in your face) had this one major issue on their minds. It would seem to be up to the teachers of that decade to [...]

Read More

Eavesdropping on the Sacra Conversazione

Eavesdropping on the Sacra Conversazione

[ 2 ] February 23, 2013 AD |

During the Italian Renaissance, an art form emerged known as the sacra conversazione or “sacred conversation.” Sandro Botticelli, Fra Angelico, later Titian and others painted the Madonna and Christ Child talking with saints and sometimes the artist’s own patrons. Recalling Dante’s beatific vision, figures otherwise separated by time and space meet in the planes of [...]

Read More

The decline of civilization, in one simple chart

The decline of civilization, in one simple chart

[ 29 ] September 12, 2011 AD |

Here, my friends, we have a chart illustrating the rot infecting the soul of the modern West. Or, at least, that fraction of the West represented by the English-language books written between 1800 and 1990 and contained in Google’s massive database. The blue line indicates the (decreasing) frequency with which the word “virtues” appears in [...]

Read More