Leave the world or embrace it?
How do Catholics deal with a world that’s so stubbornly unmanageable? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
James Kalb
Thoughts on listening, accompaniment, and synodality
I make some rather skeptical comments on the whole listening, accompaniment, and synodality thing at Catholic World Report.
Remembering Paul Elmer More
I discuss “New Humanist” literary critic and Christian apologist Paul Elmer More in the December issue of Chronicles Magazine.
More on my new book
An essay by British journalist James Jeffrey in Brussels Signal tucks in a brief discussion of my recent book The Disintegration of Man.
Realities are greater than ideas
So why do Synodality, Social Justice, and other utopian schemes fall on their faces? And how can we make our efforts more productive? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
The Synod speaks
I comment on the Summary Report of the first session of the Synod on Synodality at the Chronicles Magazine website. It’s not good.
Another review of my book
There’s yet another review of my book The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church, starting on page 30 of the July/August 2023 issue of the Anglican magazine New Directions:
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Remembrance of things past
I haven’t been active on my weblog recently, and have mostly used it for notices of pieces I’ve published elsewhere, but stubborn technical issues in an aging Drupal installation on my home computer finally forced migration to the more user-friendly WordPress platform. Post-migration cleanup involved several hours manually reassigning posts here and there, reminding me … More ...
Two reviews of my recent book
A couple of reviews of my book The Decomposition of Man have come out, by Jerry Salyer at Catholic World Report, and Julian Kwasniewski at Catholic Herald.
Technocracy and the sexes, part II
I discuss current social and Christian misandry at Catholic World Report.