Honoring rulers, honoring truth
I discuss in Crisis Magazine the difficulties that arise showing respect for our betters when our betters aren’t really our betters.
James Kalb
Anti-ideals, anti-theologies
I talk about the relation between bad religion and bad politics at Catholic World Report.
Trump and social issues
The following are my notes for a lecture I presented to the 2017 meeting of the H. L. Mencken Club on Trump and the “social issues.”
- What are the social issues?
- Why are they hard to deal with?
- What’s at stake?
- Why Trump as a social conservative?
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Does Catholic political idealism make sense?
Is Catholicism really all about politics? I discuss the issue at Catholic World Report.
Why are we here?
My comments on a recent book about Darwinian evolution can be read at Chronicles Magazine.
What “hate” and “bigotry” mean today
I discuss that timely question at Crisis Magazine.
Worse at what it is
I complain about the direction New York City has been taking in Chronicles Magazine.
Identity politics and Church teaching
I follow up my notes on white nationalism with a more general discussion of identity and identity politics at Crisis Magazine.
Notes on white nationalism
I scribble some down at Crisis Magazine.
Contemporary tyranny and Catholic social doctrine
I write on the topic in my current column at Catholic World Report.