Liberalism, Catholicism, and the Good
I have another column, this one on liberal and Catholic conceptions of the good and the just, at Catholic World Report.
More on freedom and tyranny
That’s the original title of my latest column at Catholic World Report. It’s basically an argument that Catholics shouldn’t base their political arguments on freedom, they should base them on substantive goods. (I don’t know what it shows that they renamed it “Tyranny, Religion, and the Fight for Freedom.”)
Does inclusiveness include?
Here’s a study that may be more interesting than the author realizes: people in Ann Arbor, Michigan, presumably mostly quite liberal, literally don’t realize that people whose politics differ from their own react to cold the same way they do. Does that explain the Gulag, or am I wrong in my immediate reaction that (at … More ...
After Liberalism: Notes toward Reconstruction
That’s the title of an essay I wrote that appears in the Spring 2012 issue of the Intercollegiate Review.
Caught in the Morass
[The following review, somewhat edited in ways I did not have a chance to look at (and in some respects would not have approved), appeared under the title Libertarian Limits in the January 2012 issue of First Things]
On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence, by Frank Furedi, Continuum, 224 pages, $22.95
The … More ...
God and liberal modernity
That’s the name of my March column at Catholic World Report.
The tyranny of misunderstood freedom
That’s the name of a piece I have up at Catholic World Report.
More on Islam, women, and the West
A correspondent, who had read my previous comments on women in Islam, asked whether I thought he was hysterical to say Islam enslaves women. He lives in a part of England where Muslims have recently become more of a presence, finds the routine sight of women in niqab shocking, and can’t understand why intellectual … More ...
Techno-traditionalism?
It seems accepted among educated Westerners that the rationality of an action is a matter of means and ends, of what we want and whether what we do is going to bring that about.
That’s true even among people who consider themselves right-wingers, reactionaries, traditionalists and so on, and who in many ways really are … More ...
Affirmative Action for Traditionalist Music
Music is an overlooked part of culture, and traditionalists ought to influence it with affirmative action. Start with how close our ears are to our brains and how early ancient organisms responded to sound. Sound stays with most of us for a lifetime. All you need is a few chords, and you go back decades. … More ...