About Concordia Discors
Concordia Discors was born of a conviction: that freedom is sustained not by utopias or uniformity, but by the difficult art of living with differences. Our name — “harmony through discord” — recognizes that human life is plural, sometimes clashing, always unfinished.
Here you will find reflections on politics, tech, culture, and faith. We draw inspiration from thinkers who wrestled with liberty in dark times — Isaiah Berlin, Leszek Kołakowski, Jacques Maritain, Hannah Arendt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Paul II, Raymond Aron, and others. Their voices remind us that freedom is fragile, always threatened by tyranny, ideology, or indifference.
Our essays range from the exile of Rachmaninoff in New York, to the defiance of Papusza, the Romani poet, to debates on pluralism within the Catholic tradition. These are meditations on why culture matters for liberty, why truth resists power, and why institutions must protect dissent.
In a fractured age, we hope to offer clarity and conviction without fanaticism — and to keep alive the stubborn belief that concord can be found even in discord.
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“I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”
(Alasdair MacIntyre - After Virtue, 1981)
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