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Faith and Reason
Catholic teaching defends conscience not as relativism but as liberty’s foundation: truth can only be embraced freely. Liberty makes room for truth; truth gives liberty its purpose.
Conscience
Borodin’s Partings maps not prison camps but the inner gulag—consciences dulled by compromise, truths traded for comfort. Paired with Solzhenitsyn’s thunder, his whisper warns: freedom is lost first in silence.
Moral Courage
Alexander Solzhenitsyn remains one of the towering moral witnesses of the twentieth century. A soldier, prisoner, writer, and prophet, he lived through the worst that the totalitarian state could inflict, and yet refused to bow his soul to it. What distinguished him was not only his suffering but the clarity
Foreign Affairs
Isaiah Berlin and Leszek Kołakowski offer a blueprint: Only inclusive, pluralist statecraft—not imposed power—can bring Syria back from the brink. The international community must insist on it.
Freedom
Mises’s provocative concept still helps understand the Psychology of Anticapitalism today