"Science and the Good" gives a careful historical and logical analysis of what its subtitle rightly calls "the tragic quest for the foundations of morality" over the last four hundred years.
The HBO series argues with an admirable moral clarity that good men, whatever their flaws, must be called upon to keep evil men at bay and that the wickedness of the human heart is ultimately ineradicable.
Conservatives should have a deep interest in high culture. Without a fight, identity politics, diversity, multiculturalism, and political correctness will debase it and deaden it.
The Met's production of "Rigoletto" is an excellent example of where engagement with the work as a drama, rather than trying to put on a spectacle, would have been the better move.
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