Catholics and cultural assimilation
I have a piece up at the Crisis website on the topic. Not surprisingly, I say the culture should assimilate to Catholics rather than the reverse.
Catholicism
Turning the corner
My column for Catholic World Report, on the need to expand what can be talked about in public life, is now up.
Out of the wreckage
I have another piece on the Sixties up at Crisis Magazine. It orginally started with an epigraph from The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius that got ditched because the site software couldn’t accommodate it:
… More ...“The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to
The historical roots of 1960s radicalism
My latest piece at Crisis Magazine explains the Sixties as a stage of modernization (not necessarily a good thing).
An undemocratic future?
My latest column is now online at Catholic World Report under that title. It’s a review of After Tocqueville by Chilton Williamson.
The Church and Social Programs
That’s the title of my latest at Catholic World Report. For people in the thick of things it can look like enterprises like Obamacare would make a lot of things better, but the overall picture is more troubling.
The state and the sacred
Here’s another column at Catholic World Report, this one on the essential sacredness of the state. If you say “no, the state is simply practical” then some aspect of the simply practical will become sacred.
Looking back on the Sixties
I have a new piece up at Crisis on the illusion and reality of the Sixties. What people expected to be liberation and soaring horizons turned out to be the rise to power of a severely flawed ruling class.
Feminism and Catholicism
I continue my assault on equality, with a piece on feminism at Crisis.
Equality and Catholicism
I have yet another piece at Catholic World Report, this one on equality and Catholicism. It points out that the progressive understanding of equality is at odds with Catholicism, good sense, good order, human well-being, and what not else, because it demands the abolition of all significant social institutions other than global markets … More ...