The Flynn Effect, technocracy, and natural law
I go into all that and more in my latest at Crisis Magazine.
Pro “gay marriage” and pro-life?
Another correspondent asks whether I think it’s possible to be pro-gay marriage and pro-life: whether logically, rationally, ultimately, the two positions can be reconciled. She had noticed some conservatives going that way.
It seemed to me you could give multiple answers depending on how you took the question:
- Of course they can be reconciled. You
Another explanation of the Vatican II debacle
A correspondent forwards the following:
… More ...Another problem for which Vatican II was responsible is what one might call the gentrification of Catholic culture. The fact that Europe’s working classes had largely abandoned Catholicism by the late 1950s enabled Vatican II to concentrate on constructing an essentially middle-class model of what it is to be Catholc.
Catholicism and the ideological temptation
Current politics has lost any reasonable conception of the public good. That has to change, and changing it should be central to Catholic political activity. So says my latest piece at Catholic World Report.
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 ...