How should normal people think about charges of bigotry?
My latest at Crisis Magazine. The analysis focuses on the Church and charges of “sexism” and so on, but the implications are broader.
Where to go with social teaching?
Another piece at Catholic World Report, this one on the difficulties of “business as usual” in the face of radical and inhuman tendencies.
Is “sexual immorality” a useful concept?
Current at Crisis Magazine, more comments on a topic that’s intellectually quite interesting but people don’t want to talk about. (Which means that obfuscation, sophistry, and bad faith are left an open field).
Reality matters
My latest piece for Catholic World Report is a sort of variation on the Crisis piece below.
Does doctrine matter?
I say it does, in my latest piece at Crisis Magazine, because reality matters. The line of thought would, of course, only apply to true doctrine.
The practice of politics
[The following review appeared in the December, 2014 issue of Chronicles:]
This is a history of liberalism as it appears to an intelligent, well-informed, and thoroughly convinced English liberal who worked for many years as an editor and correspondent for The Economist. It is useful as a sympathetic exploration of the stages through which the … More ...
What the traditional Mass means to me
And here’s my latest at Crisis Magazine. I had no idea that something on the traditional Mass would be such clickbait.
Normality is not hatred
My latest at Catholic World Report.
Sex and the religion of me
The following essay appears in the December, 2014 First Things:
… More ...Why has the equivalence of same-sex and opposite-sex relations suddenly become a moral and social absolute? That it has is plain to see. In the Supreme Court’s recent Windsor decision, which struck down much of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the majority
The recovery of human nature
I have another column at Catholic World Report, this one about the necessity of a settled understanding of human nature, the difficulty of establishing on in global technocratic society, and what to do about that situation.