Social class today
My last two columns at Catholic World Report were about race and sex, so my new one is about class.
Society and culture
My Youtube videos
Some kind soul has put together a Youtube collection of interviews and talks I’ve given.
Thoughts on ethnicity and related
Ethnicity is a fraught topic, but I go into it and some related topics at Catholic World Report.
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.
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 ...
Mechanical nihilism
I review Anthony Esolen’s book Life Under Compulsion at Chronicles Magazine.
What is Anti-Racism?
Racial differences and attachments are real, and they can’t be educated or administered away. Family, ancestry, and history are part of who we are, so they are part of identity. People take them to heart, and that’s not going to change.
So why do respectable people get so weird about them, and claim race doesn’t … More ...