thoughts in and out of season
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.”
He’s not an actual social conservative. He’s OK … More ...
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.
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There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My column for Catholic World Report, on the need to expand what can be talked about in public life, is now up.
My latest column at Catholic World Report goes into various flip-flops in the Catholic Church’s attitude toward secular powers. There are no perfect answers, but clear-headedness is good, and maybe the Church is righting herself from the extreme optimism of the post-Vatican II period.
Larry Auster notes an odd unexplained shift in the New York Times coverage of the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath: it used to be unproblematically good, because Arabs of course can’t be distinguished from Eastern Europeans, whereas now it’s suddenly an issue, because the Arabs of course mostly support Islamic politics.
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