Are Public Awards and Punishments Good?

Are Public Awards and Punishments Good? 1

We were recently asked to comment on the fact that the custom of granting awards to the best students is being abolished in several schools. At the root of this new policy is the idea that the public bestowal of awards is doubly harmful: exciting vanity in the beneficiaries of the honors … Read more

TFP Program on Eve of 2008 March for Life

TFP Program on Eve of 2008 March for Life

On the eve of the January 22 March for Life in the nation’s capital, the TFP sponsored a reception at its McLean, Va. center for local friends and supporters as well as for foreign pro-life delegations who came to attend the march. Among the organizations represented were Droit de Naître (Right to … Read more

The Hoax Of Atheistic Communism

The Hoax Of Atheistic Communism 2

“History is the tutor of life,” said Cicero. Nothing is more useful for the understanding of certain of the liveliest aspects of modern reality than the study of analogous situations of the past. Heresies, as is well-known, rose up one after the other during the whole twenty centuries of the history of … Read more