The Western cult of happiness is indeed a strange adventure, something like a collective intoxication. In the guise of emancipation, it transforms a high ideal into its opposite. Condemned to joy, we must be happy or lose all standing in society. It is not a question of knowing whether we …
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam Ours is an age of pointless exercise. Witness the widespread enthusiasm for the marathon. Never before have so many Americans put their bodies through such rigors solely for the sake of being able to say that they have. Whenever a means to an end becomes an …
Over the last [35] years, I’ve written dozens of poems, plays, and short stories; hundreds of newspaper articles, commentaries, and comic strips; and thousands of billboards, bumper stickers, brochures, and commercials. Occasionally, I’ve even been paid for my services. — F.R. Duplantier, “Behind The Headlines” In 1997, the Institute for …
