Turnabout thoughts in and out of season

I discuss the religion of liberalism at Sydney Traditionalist Forum.

A lecturer and adjunct professor of philosophy in Ohio has commented on a column on natural law I published recently at Catholic World Report (republished at Crisis).

He’s an existentialist whose great heroes are Sartre and Beauvoir, so he doesn’t think much of it.

I was a guest on Tom Woods’s podcast yesterday, discussing my book The Tyranny of Liberalism.

I’ve been busy, and haven’t been adding links to new items published at other sites. I think these will bring me up to date:

• The True Benedict Option for Our Time. A Crisis piece commenting on the need for coherent local community.
• Natural Law, Reality, and Ideological Fantasies. Something in Catholic World Report sketching out lines of thought that support human nature and natural law in an age that doesn’t want to hear about them.
• Re-evaluating Today’s Human Rights Regime. Back to Crisis for comments on its political meaning and function.
• Dreams, Ideals, and Living Better Naturally. Comments on the insufficiency of our public ideals of life.

I explore the differences and connections among the three tendencies in my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.

I’ve published the first of a series of pieces about natural law and how to bring it more public attention at Catholic World Report.

What’s all this about doctrine versus discipline in the Church? I try to unriddle some of the considerations in my latest piece in Catholic World Report.

We hear the word “pastoral” quite a bit today, but the intended meaning is sometimes puzzling. I try to straighten everything out in my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.

I give an explanation of the Trump phenomenon at Chronicles Magazine.

That’s the question for Church and society today. I talk about it in my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.

Non-progressives often find it hard to understand why even the battiest left-liberal views have such durability and power. I attempt an explanation in my latest piece at Catholic World Report.

I continue discussing immigration at Catholic World Report.

For a salute to the German bishops as model churchmen for our time–sort of–see my latest column at Crisis Magazine.

My current column at Catholic World Report looks at international migration from the standpoint of source countries and their people, and suggests skepticism about whether it solves many problems. Next month I’ll look at it from the standpoint of recipient countries like America.

My October column in Crisis deals with just that question.

That series of abstractions is in fact the topic of my new column at Catholic World Report.

I have a piece at Catholic World Report on the pitfalls of world government and one at Crisis Magazine on the consequences of the changes leading to the recent Supreme Court decision on “gay marriage.”

I have an essay in the current First Things on the current political and social situation and how to respond to it. The whole thing is available here.

I’ve a couple of pieces on that topic, one at Crisis Magazine on the virtue of docility–readiness to learn and be taught–in a time of teachers who are both weak and willful, and one at Catholic World Report on the collectivist temptation in present day Catholic thought.