“Few leftists remember that the amnesty law, created in 1978 during Spain’s transition to democracy, also pardoned communists and separatist terrorists.”
All Cathedrals, I have realized, have a smell, a sound, and a feel that binds them to one another; it’s a congruity of design that unites believers wherever they go.
In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.
It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.
In this episode of “Occasional Dialogues,” Kurt Hofer interviews Glenn Ellmers. They discuss Ellmers’ new book, populism, political philosophy, and the need for a muscular Christianity instead of “liberalism with hymnals.”
