Mechanical nihilism
I review Anthony Esolen’s book Life Under Compulsion at Chronicles Magazine.
Subordinating the sacred to the secular
For a salute to the German bishops as model churchmen for our time–sort of–see my latest column at Crisis Magazine.
Is emigration the answer?
My current column at Catholic World Report looks at international migration from the standpoint of source countries and their people, and suggests skepticism about whether it solves many problems. Next month I’ll look at it from the standpoint of recipient countries like America.
What do we do about an intrusive and unhinged public order?
My October column in Crisis deals with just that question.
Public order, identity, and the church
That series of abstractions is in fact the topic of my new column at Catholic World Report.
Living with Papa when he’s a bit quirky
That’s the topic of my new column in Crisis Magazine.
August columns
I have a piece at Catholic World Report on the pitfalls of world government and one at Crisis Magazine on the consequences of the changes leading to the recent Supreme Court decision on “gay marriage.”
What is Anti-Racism?
Racial differences and attachments are real, and they can’t be educated or administered away. Family, ancestry, and history are part of who we are, so they are part of identity. People take them to heart, and that’s not going to change.
So why do respectable people get so weird about them, and claim race doesn’t … More ...
Technocracy Now
I have an essay in the current First Things on the current political and social situation and how to respond to it. The whole thing is available here.
Finding our way forward in bad times
I’ve a couple of pieces on that topic, one at Crisis Magazine on the virtue of docility–readiness to learn and be taught–in a time of teachers who are both weak and willful, and one at Catholic World Report on the collectivist temptation in present day Catholic thought.