Thoughts on ethnicity and related
Ethnicity is a fraught topic, but I go into it and some related topics at Catholic World Report.
Society and culture
Does feminism make sense?
I complain about feminism in Catholic World Report, and answer the question with a “no.”
Remembering Paul Elmer More
I discuss “New Humanist” literary critic and Christian apologist Paul Elmer More in the December issue of Chronicles Magazine.
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.
The Synod speaks
I comment on the Summary Report of the first session of the Synod on Synodality at the Chronicles Magazine website. It’s not good.
Pro “gay marriage” and pro-life?
Another correspondent asks whether I think it’s possible to be pro-gay marriage and pro-life: whether logically, rationally, ultimately, the two positions can be reconciled. She had noticed some conservatives going that way.
It seemed to me you could give multiple answers depending on how you took the question:
- Of course they can be reconciled. You
How religious is natural law?
In the Crisis piece mentioned in the previous entry, I suggested the relationship between the two was ambiguous. A blogger who wants to maintain a strong distinction between natural law and religion called me on it, so I had to develop my thoughts a little.
My answer was that the distinction is important … More ...
Religion, liberalism, and worldly success
My latest column is now up at Catholic World Report. Basically it presents a standard cyclical view of one aspect of history: a society with a good religion will become successful, which makes the religion lose its hold, which means the society will stop being successful.
The radical meaning of “gay marriage”
That’s the title of my most recent piece at Crisis Magazine. It discusses recent developments in connection with the trend toward a single universal regime of contract and regulation in which no point has privileged independence.
Smartening up
That’s the topic of my most recent piece at Crisis. It’s a followup to my recent piece on stupidity.