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January 2017

January 24, 2017

Why Are Protest Movements (Like the Women’s March) Ineffective?

The Women's March protest has me thinking about protest movements . . . if only...

September 2016

September 03, 2016

Thinker Behind the “Benedict Option” Appears to be Taking a Neo-Marxist Turn

Rod Dreher has been very generous to this blog throughout the years. Cosmos has been...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

Catholics4Trump: Donald Trump’s Presumptive Nomination is Good News for Catholics

The electorate these days is thinking apocalyptically. This presidential election cycle is too much even for the strongest...

November 2015

November 02, 2015

We Have Never Been Postliberal Catholics?

The whole faltering #IStandWithDouthat hashtag campaign has me thinking of the Catholic philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre,...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

Pope Francis and Kristeva Celebrate JP2’s Suffering With Joy

Today Pope Francis celebrated the 10th anniversary of John Paul II's passing with the following...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

If You Practice It, You’ll Become: How the Pastor Became an Atheist

"Nothing will come from nothing," says King Lear, habitually plagiarizing a tradition that goes back...

November 2014

November 01, 2014

MacIntyre: What the Natural Sciences Do Not Explain

I am going through a bit of a MacIntyre renaissance of late. I've realized the...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

What We Want is a Spirituality of Wiping Bottoms and Breastfeeding!

Yesterday's post featured Alasdair MacIntyre discussing how much the philosophical tradition has ignored the dependencies...

October 22, 2014

MacIntyre’s Revelatory Argument About Disability

There is nothing like the thrill of discovering a new vein of thought. The only...

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...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

The Ideological Winters of American Catholicism

The average American parishioner is more faithful to the Democratic and Republican platforms than the...

June 2013

June 22, 2013

Colm Toibin's Regensburg Moment & Macauley's Catholic Dissidents

Colm Tóibín's The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe is a real treat. There's...