The Church as Archimedes’ fulcrum
Here’s another piece at Crisis, this one about the necessity of the Church as an independent institution in an age of Gleichschaltung.
Political theory
What are Catholics to do? (part III)
There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.
Tolerance that swallows itself
My review of The Intolerance of Tolerance, a book by reformed theologian D. A. Carson, is available at The University Bookman.
What are Catholics to do?
That’s the title of my current column at Catholic World Report. Basically it says we have to drop out from a radically technocratic world.
The Church and the Constitution
My new column is up at Catholic World Report. Basically, it says that the American political order needs to adopt Catholicism as its ethos to restore what’s been good in it.
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.