What way to a better world?
I do a little noodling about what Catholics should be doing now that social orthodoxies have been somewhat unsettled by the Trump victory, at Catholic World Report.
Practical politics
MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing
Like everybody else, I comment on the whole Trump victory thing.
More on my new book
An essay by British journalist James Jeffrey in Brussels Signal tucks in a brief discussion of my recent book The Disintegration of Man.
Trump and social issues
The following are my notes for a lecture I presented to the 2017 meeting of the H. L. Mencken Club on Trump and the “social issues.”
- What are the social issues?
- Why are they hard to deal with?
- What’s at stake?
- Why Trump as a social conservative?
He’s not an actual social conservative. He’s OK … More ...
More of the same
Here’s a discussion of the future of race relations.
More of the Same
The state of American race relations in twenty years will depend on the status of a conflict among various immovable objects and irresistible but slow-acting forces. Such conflicts generally don’t go anywhere fast, so neither will race relations.
The most obvious immovable … More ...
What are Catholics to do? (part III)
There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.
What Are Catholics To Do? (Part II)
I have more comments at Catholic World Report about what Catholics and other sensible people should do when natural law has been declared a hate crime.
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.
Tardy reflections on the election
My current column is online at Catholic World Report. Instead of talking about the stupid party and the evil party I talk about the party that believes in nothing and the party that believes in Nothing, but it comes to the same thing.
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.