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About Richard Bastien
Richard Bastien is Vice-President of Justin Press, a Canadian publishing house based in Ottawa, and a member of the teaching staff of the Ottawa Chesterton Academy.
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Paradise Cancelled explores divide between Christianity and postmodernism

December 7, 2024 Richard Bastien 18

We live in a world gone mad. This madness was foreseen a century ago by the Irish poet William Yeats in The Second Coming: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold / Mere anarchy is loosed upon […]

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Chronicling the suicide of Western civilization

August 18, 2017 Richard Bastien 21

Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe provides a brave and important, if not complete, assessment of the West’s dire situation. […]

Books

Biography of Michael O’Brien details a creative life full of joys and sorrows

June 21, 2017 Richard Bastien 11

Over the past century, most Western countries have produced great Catholic fiction writers. The UK may rightly pride itself on Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the U.S. on Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor, […]

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Why We Can’t Do Without the Natural Law

September 29, 2016 Richard Bastien 0

This book is for big picture readers, those who seek to view things in a long term perspective.  Its thesis is that the moral values that underpin the legal and political systems of Western countries […]

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