Here’s a video from the past. It’s a talk I gave at the Augustine College Summer Seminar in June 2019 so I’m tardy making it available. And it’s about the Middle Ages which were, far too many people think, necessarily awful because they were long ago and old is bad and new is good. In fact there are a great many modern horrors that would have appalled people in the Middle Ages and one of them is widespread ignorance about the period.

Sorry to take so long to get around to editing and posting it. Life got in the way.

“When the knight came upon the dragon, did he estimate whether the dragon could be overcome in his lifetime? No. He stood up and fought.”

J. Budziszewski in “Underground Thomist” email Feb. 25, 2019

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

Henry David Thoreau, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com

“pessimist: a person who thinks everything is bad except himself.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Flag of the World” in Orthodoxy, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 # 7 (June 2004)

“the present era, by and large since the end of the First World War, has returned to the practice and theory of radical hedonism.... We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”

Erich Fromm To Have and To Be p. xxvii.

“That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's wrong, or to say a word for what's right even though you get walloped for saying that word. Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting, but that don't change the truth none. There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.”

Davy Crockett (John Wayne) in The Alamo (according to en.wikiquote.org)

"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it."

Emerson Pugh, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com

“Unlike the case of Philosophy, where no answer to its question is ever possible, there must be an answer to the great question of Political Economy. How – so it first asked – does mankind produce enough goods for the wants of mankind? That has been answered long ago. How can mankind adjust its production so as not to oversatisfy some, undersatisfy others, and break down in the process? That has not been answered.”

Stephen Leacock "What is Left of Adam Smith?" in On the Front Line of Life