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January 2017

January 14, 2017

How to Act Like a Christian

In his work On the Eternal in Man, the philosopher Max Scheler argued that one...

January 13, 2017

Why Millennials Want to Change the World

The older, business generation criticizes my generation for a vague, object-less idealism. We want to...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

What Photography Does to Unborn Children

You cannot take a picture of a general “mother” or “child.” You cannot photograph the...

December 30, 2016

Towards a Pro-life Iconoclasm

Every image is a selection, and every selection hides. In the case of the pro-life...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

The Illiberal Bathroom Experience

There are those who would argue, with some justification, that LGBTQA movement need not concern...

July 13, 2016

Curb Your Patriotism

Over at Those Catholic Men, I write: Budweiser beer cans are called ‘America’ now. Budweiser,...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Those Horribly Sappy Saints

Belief in the Saints, properly understood, is a shocked assent to the fact that an...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

Why “Getting Along” Isn’t Working

These violent, extremist, and racist days need to try the discussion of our differences all...

August 2015

August 19, 2015

An Idiotic Hierarchy

I needed to make restitution for my sins. So I exposed my body to that combox anti-Catholicism...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

17 Things Only Humans Will Understand

Inspired by those nifty BuzzFeed articles (“10 Things Only 90’s Kids Will Understand”) I decided...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

The Real World

Human people are the creators of other-worlds, minor-league gods who daily exercises impossible powers without...

March 2014

March 17, 2014

The Spirit of Rebellion

One of my larger worries, considering that daily question of whether to be a Catholic,...

July 2013

July 07, 2013

Eyeball the Enemy

Eye-contact is a fascinating phenomenon. With our beloved, it is a delight. With a stranger...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Is Female Purity Bullshit?

Yerp, says the wonderful Lindy West of Jezebel. Her critique comes from being righteously pissed...

April 2013

April 15, 2013

Why the Church Would be so Ridiculous as to Oppose IVF

We have a godawful habit of seeing children as things so small, cute and fluffy that...

April 11, 2013

Death as Orgasm

Love sucks. To love is to desire communion with the beloved, to ache for unity,...

April 02, 2013

The Difficulty With Engaging Gay Marriage

UPDATE: This post may make more sense with this post as its partner. Catholics are...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

On not being allowed to watch the Conclave

I love being Catholic, not only for the vast horizons the Church opens before my...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

A Reflection on the Abdication of Pope Benedict XVI

An unusual post for an unusual day. I'm transcribing my notebook because I don't have...

February 07, 2013

Money, Death of Culture

“In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is...

February 01, 2013

Life is Probably a Gift

Christians ruin mind-blowing concepts by hollowing them into a phrase, titling their banal rock albums...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Is Man No More Than An Ape?

Man is a self-glorified ape. He occupies no special place in the Cosmos -- a...

January 15, 2013

6 Reasons Why Men Can Speak on Abortion

The injustice of abortion is the free choice of a woman who sees it working...

January 06, 2013

You Are Immensely Powerful

Human beings suck. We've murdered, raped, belittled, ignored and otherwise objectified each other since we...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Concerning the Zombie Apocalypse

If we were decent, self-respecting animals, we would naturally prefer good environments -- in which...

December 15, 2012

Scientism’s Aching Need to Make Suicide Inevitable

Evolution is not, contrary to the Internet, an idea spontaneously generated from the cranium of...

December 04, 2012

Selfing Others Right in the Face

To "love your neighbor as yourself" is not a restating of "do unto others as...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

An Imperfect God

An excellent New York Times opinion piece is making its dutiful trudge around the Internet,...

November 14, 2012

Better Than Nothing

All things come from and tend towards Nothing. The Big Bang Theory supports the former...

November 05, 2012

Does Contraception Reduce the Abortion Rate? (Rebuttal Part 3)

The Holy Internet demands writers present the truth in 500 words or less, with a...