thoughts in and out of season
My current column is online at Catholic World Report. Instead of talking about the stupid party and the evil party I talk about the party that believes in nothing and the party that believes in Nothing, but it comes to the same thing.
I have a piece up at the Crisis website on the topic. Not surprisingly, I say the culture should assimilate to Catholics rather than the reverse.
My column for Catholic World Report, on the need to expand what can be talked about in public life, is now up.
I have another piece on the Sixties up at Crisis Magazine. It orginally started with an epigraph from The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius that got ditched because the site software couldn’t accommodate it:
… More ...“The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to
My latest piece at Crisis Magazine explains the Sixties as a stage of modernization (not necessarily a good thing).
My latest column is now online at Catholic World Report under that title. It’s a review of After Tocqueville by Chilton Williamson.
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.
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.
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.
I continue my assault on equality, with a piece on feminism at Crisis.