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Béla Bangha: A Jesuit on the Crossroads of Catholicism and Racism

László Bernát Veszprémy December 31, 2022

Why was Bangha remembered by the Jewish press as an ‘enemy of racism’ if his papers were full of anti-Semitism in the early 1920s? The answer seems to lie in his understanding of the role of Catholicism in public life.

Literature that Defied the Nazi Regime

Sebastian Sigler December 19, 2022

Scholdt pays tribute to both the aesthetic achievements and the courage of writers who were persecuted and ostracized during the Nazi era. He also considers the significance of their resistance in the Nazi years for our own tumultuous times.

More Kicks to Arthur Bryant’s Corpse

R.J. Stove December 18, 2022

Through scarcely credible naïveté, Robinson seems to believe that he has disposed of Bryant’s ethical pretensions. His hubris calls to mind those self-destructive British Labour parliamentarians who elicited the jibe that, when granted a choice of weapons, they always selected boomerangs.

The Person Behind the Golden Bull

Zoltán Attila Liktor December 14, 2022

The Golden Bull was fundamental to Hungary’s constitutional system and a guarantee of the nation’s sovereignty. On its 800th anniversary, we should commemorate the patriotic statesman, Cletus, bishop of Eger, who gave Hungarians such a noble gift.

To Those Who Gave Their All: A Reflection on the Importance of the Battlefield

Veronica Lademan November 21, 2022

Opening our hearts to contemplating the battlefield’s significance causes us to consider what we owe our people and our nation—generations dead, living, and unborn—and particularly to those whose remains now build up the very soil we stand on.

Culture and Politics on a ‘Fortress Island’

André P. DeBattista November 15, 2022

A people do not become a nation—however tiny and insignificant a nation—until they possess a literature; just as a man becomes a man only when he reveals his personality through speech.

Escaping the Tyranny of Relevance

Harrison Pitt November 5, 2022

Intellectual adventure is not available to bees, who simply do as they do in obedience to their limited nature. The hive may be a place of cohesion, but it contains no libraries, paintings, or statues to heroic bees of the past. Human life without the humanities would be much the same: cut off from our roots, deprived of meditation, and locked in an eternal now. The cult of relevance makes prisoners of us all.

The Inkling’s Historic Pub “Left to Rot”

David Boos September 27, 2022

An organization dedicated to keeping pubs from closing has stepped up to save the Eagle and the Child. Campaign for Real Ale, or CAMRA, has called on the pub’s owners, St. John’s College, to account for its neglect.

Van Eyck’s “Just Judges”:
Ghent’s Great Unsolved Art Theft

Erwin Wolff September 25, 2022

The theft of the “Just Judges” panel of the Ghent Altarpiece is still unsolved. In the first of a series of essays, the story begins.

The Golden Bull of Hungary:
800 Years of Freedom and Constitutional Tradition

Atilla K. Molnar September 24, 2022

The Golden Bull of 1222 is a unique charter, as it was issued as a result of popular movements of the common nobility to defend and restore supposedly old customs and liberties, in the face of activities of the king and barons they perceived as harmful.

Tag: history

Béla Bangha: A Jesuit on the Crossroads of Catholicism and Racism

Literature that Defied the Nazi Regime

More Kicks to Arthur Bryant’s Corpse

The Person Behind the Golden Bull

To Those Who Gave Their All: A Reflection on the Importance of the Battlefield

Culture and Politics on a ‘Fortress Island’

Escaping the Tyranny of Relevance

The Inkling’s Historic Pub “Left to Rot”

Van Eyck’s “Just Judges”:
Ghent’s Great Unsolved Art Theft

The Golden Bull of Hungary:
800 Years of Freedom and Constitutional Tradition

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