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March 2015

March 24, 2015

Netanyahu Understands the Inquisition Better than Zmirak (Who is Closer to Cruz)

The Black Legend of the Inquisition persists because it takes popular opinion a couple of...

March 23, 2015

Deneen, MacIntyre, Schindler, Dreher? For John Zmirak I’m Ahead of Them All!

John Zmirak is a Catholic intellectual of limited credibility. He has an MFA, surprisingly enough...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

Obama’s Drones are far Deadlier than the Spanish Inquisition

Obama seems to finally have reached that most amusing point in a two-term presidency: The...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

A Breakdown of the Conservative Catholic Hermeneutic of Contiguity?

I did not expect that reposting "To What Degree is First Things Responsible for Iraq?"...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

America’s Post 9/11 Nihilism

John Zmirak's writing, while it it is not serious theology, philosophy, or economic theory, has...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The Cosmos Liberally Stretches Toward Aleteia and Vatican II

Good news folks. The Zmirak debates have returned to the pages of Aleteia where they...

January 08, 2014

Apart from… What has Illiberal Catholicism Done for Us?

The John Zmirak piece about "Illiberal Catholicism" has proven to be a great catalyst for...

January 05, 2014

Lost in the Environment (Rather than Cosmos) of Commercialism

Lost in the Cosmos is one of those books that you immediately like, even if...

January 04, 2014

Subversive Orthodoxy Meets the Libertarian Preferential Option for the Rich

The writing of the last series of post has got me thinking about what I...

January 03, 2014

Islam Does Not Need a Reformation

After a little bit of polemic the last few days I'd like to write about...

January 02, 2014

Contra Zmirak: In Praise of the Inquisition

WELCOME NOTE: If you're coming here off a Zmirak link (thanks for the free publicity John!)...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Prominent Polish Prelates and the Poisonous Fruit of Unbridled Capitalism (Catholiclandia III)

Wyszynski and Wojtyla upon the latter's election as pope. The first thing you...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

A True Opium for the People is a Belief in Nothingness After Death!

When was the last time any of you (who don't attend fundamentalist churches) heard a...