thoughts in and out of season
An essay or book review I wrote on architectural theorist Christopher Alexander’s theory of order has appeared in the International Journal of Architectural Research. Here’s the special issue in which the piece appears.
My current column at Catholic World Report discusses how extremely demanding Paul VI’s vision of the Council was, how the world has been much too willful and strong and Catholic flesh and blood too weak, and what needs to be done to retrieve the situation somewhat.
That’s the topic of my latest column at Crisis Magazine.
I have a piece at the Catholic World Report weblog on the absurdity and necessity of natural law arguments in a moralistic technocracy.
My latest column at Catholic World Report says we’re not going to be able to slide through the current situation by lying low and waiting until it all blows over. The issues are too basic.
My latest piece at Crisis Magazine discusses good fences, good neighbors, the One, the Many, and inclusiveness.
Thomas Bertonneau has a review of Against Inclusiveness up at The University Bookman that deals with a variety of themes in the book that others haven’t much touched on.
In a blog entry at Catholic World Report, I comment on incipient second thoughts about the direction liberalism is going from Democratic commentator Kirsten Powers.
I have a brace of new pieces up, one at Crisis Magazine about how bad ideological pluralism is and one at Catholic World Report on Socratic questioning as a weapon against technocracy.
Those are the topics of my two most recent online columns, one at Crisis Magazine about how to infuse politics with a bit more soul, and one at Catholic World Report about why the Church can’t possibly use modern public language to speak to modern man.