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.
New review
A Catholic blogger reviews my book Against Inclusiveness.
What prospects for thought?
I follow up last month’s piece at Catholic World Report on the destruction of thought with another on its possible future.
The Church and the god of this world
Current public thought excludes basic realities, so we shouldn’t use it as a basis of discussion with people today. That’s the thought behind my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.
Notes on a book against modernist and postmodernist art
The book is Who Says That’s Art?: A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts, by Michelle Marder Kamhi. It was recommended by a friend who’s also a friend of the author.
The author herself is an independent scholar and co-editor of the (now online) journal Aristos. She seems to be somewhat of a … More ...
How do we smarten up when everything’s dumbing down?
I just published a brace of pieces on that timely topic at Crisis Magazine and Catholic World Report.
A Catholic patriotism
My current column at Catholic World Report says that America’s a country and not a cause or creed, so there’s no reason to put Catholicism and patriotism at odds with each other. Indeed, the two go together.