Which one of us would fail to respond enthusiastically to the courage of heroes, who in moments of grave danger, risk their lives to...

He who aims at changing society—-for good or for evil—knows that he should gain control over three things: education, news media, and...

One of the marks of a truly great philosopher is his or her concern with crucial questions. Many a thinker is tempted to devote his or her..

Up to some forty years ago, the word "discrimination" had a positive ring. A discriminating person was someone who was subtle, capable of...

One of the difficulties we all face in spiritual life is that attitudes which seem to be identical can, in fact, be quite different and...

I wonder whether former President Bill Clinton has ever given a speech without mentioning “the American Dream.” The dream to which...

One of the most burning topics today is the relationship existing between "truth" and "charity." I shall defend the thesis that they are...

One of the important contributions of the late Dietrich von Hildebrand (d. 1977) is in shedding brighter light on the two dimensions of...

In 1965 my husband Dietrich von Hildebrand and I had a private audience with Pope Paul VI, in which my husband "shot from the hip" as...

In 1980, I was granted the extraordinary privilege of a private audience with His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Knowing that John Paul had a..

I recall vividly that in my early teens I read the memoirs of a priest who, aged 70, bitterly lamented his ingratitude toward his mother...

The word “bankruptcy” is a nightmare to finance people. Literature is eloquent on this topic. Consider Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit...

If Socrates were alive today, it is likely that he would sit close to a newspaper per stand and address the people rushing to grab a...

My Dear Friend: I am sure you have sometimes found yourself sitting next to an unknown person at a dinner party; you try to engage in a...

Wherever we turn, we are faced with the words "in our culture." "Our culture tells us." We are implicitly told that we have a social duty...

We know neither the day nor the hour. In our sick and violent society, in spite of the laws of statistics, no young person has any...

Plato’s name has been mentioned more than once in these pages. He deserves to be mentioned once again...

Once again I am going to question your knowledge of ancient Greece. I assume that you have read Antigone — this great work of Sophocles ...

Habit plays a cardinal role in human life. In order to gauge its value, however, some distinctions are called for...

Friendship is the remnant of paradise. Aristotle sees it as a virtue, and one's behavior toward one's friends tells us a great deal about...