The reset we need
I continue to complain about the vacancy of current public life and call for a basic change of direcion on Catholic World Repoort.
Religion
The Gospel, politics, and love of God
I discuss the relation between politics and the Gospel at Catholic World Report.
Is Christianity “conservative”?
I discuss the relation between conservative Christianity and Catholicism at Catholic World Report
. In the piece I interpret “conservatism” as attachment to established ways and institutions and contrast it to orthodoxy.
The Old Right and the Recovery of Social Order
The following essay was written for A Paleoconservative Anthology: New Voices for an Old Tradition, edited by Paul Gottfried, but was left out (apparently due to an administrative slip-up—editorial changes, author’s bio etc. had all been agreed on). A slightly revised version will be published in the Australian journal Observer and Review.
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… More ...The world, the Gospel, and the Most Real Being
I discuss progressive Christianity at Catholic World Report.
A paper tiger?
Here’s the text of my lecture at the 2024 Roman Forum conference at Lake Garda in Italy:
A PAPER TIGER?
Introduction
We have been discussing responses to the inhuman global order now under construction. I will discuss the outlook for that order, and so the environment we will be operating in. I will concentrate on … More ...
Politics without truth
Lies, damn lies, statistics, expert consensus—where and how will it end? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
Tweets and tyrants
I moan and groan about a twitterized world at Catholic World Report.
Backwards and forwards
Do the Pope’s complaints about “backwardism” make sense? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
What built the West and why it’s sick
I discuss liberalism and the decline of the West on Will Knowland’s Knowland Knows podcast.