The Church and Social Programs
That’s the title of my latest at Catholic World Report. For people in the thick of things it can look like enterprises like Obamacare would make a lot of things better, but the overall picture is more troubling.
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The state and the sacred
Here’s another column at Catholic World Report, this one on the essential sacredness of the state. If you say “no, the state is simply practical” then some aspect of the simply practical will become sacred.
Looking back on the Sixties
I have a new piece up at Crisis on the illusion and reality of the Sixties. What people expected to be liberation and soaring horizons turned out to be the rise to power of a severely flawed ruling class.
Feminism and Catholicism
I continue my assault on equality, with a piece on feminism at Crisis.
Equality and Catholicism
I have yet another piece at Catholic World Report, this one on equality and Catholicism. It points out that the progressive understanding of equality is at odds with Catholicism, good sense, good order, human well-being, and what not else, because it demands the abolition of all significant social institutions other than global markets … More ...
The Left, the Right, and Catholicism
My latest at Catholic World Report is about left liberals, right liberals, and what to do about them.
In the Middle of the Journey
My latest column at Catholic World Report goes into various flip-flops in the Catholic Church’s attitude toward secular powers. There are no perfect answers, but clear-headedness is good, and maybe the Church is righting herself from the extreme optimism of the post-Vatican II period.
Freedom and the political good
I have a piece by that name (subtitled “some preliminary considerations”) up at the Liberty Law Blog.
Liberalism, Catholicism, and the Good
I have another column, this one on liberal and Catholic conceptions of the good and the just, at Catholic World Report.
More on freedom and tyranny
That’s the original title of my latest column at Catholic World Report. It’s basically an argument that Catholics shouldn’t base their political arguments on freedom, they should base them on substantive goods. (I don’t know what it shows that they renamed it “Tyranny, Religion, and the Fight for Freedom.”)