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.
Political theory
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.
The Left, the Right, and Catholicism
My latest at Catholic World Report is about left liberals, right liberals, and what to do about them.
Chain comments and the good life
On other fronts, Larry Auster posted a comment by me on a comment by Robert Spencer on a comment by Larry on a comment by Spencer on a canceled concert in Indonesia. How’s that for intertextuality? (The comment by me does have an actual topic, social understandings of the good.)
Mixing it up over Maistre
An old libertarian friend, Todd Seavey, posted an entry in his blog regarding The Works of Joseph de Maistre that complained about Maistre and mentioned me, so in response I posted a couple of comments that I think make sense even apart from the original setting. The point at issue, as you will see, was … More ...