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August 2016

August 25, 2016

Don’t Look to Secularism if You Want to Bathe in a Kinder, Gentler World

The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is...

August 17, 2016

Slavoj Žižek: There’s a Special Place in Hell for Clinton Consensus Supporters

I write about politics again not because I have any hopes (nor fears) about what...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Halloween Special: Catholics for Extreme Metal?

Sean Taylor is a husband and father of one as well as a Ph.D. student...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Identity-Protective Cognition: Science Finally Discovers Original Sin?!

Aquinas said something to this effect many times in his copious publications: The eternal Father's...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

2nd Year Summary: 3 Things I Love (& 1 Not So Much) About the Francis Papacy

Anniversaries are traditionally reserved for tallying gains and losses. It's hard to believe...

March 13, 2015

Michael Novak’s Devilish Catholic Defense of Invading Iraq

Michael Novak is at it again. He cannot help defending the foolish decisions the Bush...

March 09, 2015

Satan Likes Pure Spirituality, But St. Augustine Prays Over Butts

Last week I introduced you to Fabrice Hadjadj whose Faith of the Demons which is...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

What’s the One Novel You Need to Read This Year?

Death Comes for the Deconstructionist lays out the set of confounding problems facing us in the...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

The Torture Report and the Antichrist

One story stood out from the morning TV buzz today: the United States is preparing...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

On Not Fighting Matt Walsh’s Cultural Warrior Contagion

Let me be clear, I can only read Matt Walsh's constant emoting one paragraph at...

September 24, 2014

No Devil, No God

There is an amusing episode recounted by the distinguished historian Tony Judt in his NYRB...

January 2014

January 01, 2014

The Pope’s Sympathy for the Devil

The pope's resurrection of Devil talk is one of the most appealing aspects of his...