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August 2019

August 08, 2019

Vichy Values: Owning the Opposition.

France may have fallen to Germany in 1940, but at least the French liberals were...

August 07, 2019

Catholic for You, Not Me: A Lesson about Vichy

Imagine a religious right run by a serial adulterer and a political opportunist. In 1940...

August 06, 2019

Oh, Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History (Charles Williams)

He was the Victor of Verdun and if he had died an old man, he...

August 05, 2019

Joining Vichy

To join Vichy is to survive without pride. Vichy France, is unheroic World War II,...

August 03, 2019

Ancient Witches XII (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

August 02, 2019

On a Minimum Wage, Prudence, and Justice

Cry Justice Justice matters, including justice toward those who are poor. This is not a...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Red Shirts Don’t Justify Brown Shirts

“There is no longer any political question at issue here. This thing cannot be judged...

July 28, 2019

Ancient Witches XI (Guest Voice James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

July 25, 2019

Extremism in Defense of Liberty Is a Vice

I am a conservative politically: a man of the Shire. I don’t trust Ted Sandyman’s...

July 22, 2019

We Should Not Wish to Own the David (Florence should keep it.)

It is so beautiful I will not use the picture I foolishly took: The David. I...

July 20, 2019

The Problem Is Easy, the Virtue of Moderation is Hard

Whatever your point of view, Christian or atheist, Republican or Democrat, pointing to “the problem”...

July 15, 2019

Ancient Witches X: Guest Voices (James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

July 06, 2019

“Backwards” Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Myth Exploded

A middlebrow social media site, often witty, described pre-Revolutionary Russia as “backwards.” This was twitty...

July 05, 2019

Intellectual Impatience (Philosophy Helps!)

We are building a building and for that we need an architect, engineers, and other...

July 04, 2019

The Glorious Fourth (Paraphrasing Lincoln in Divided Times)

At this eighth Fourth of July since joining Patheos, there is less occasion for an...

July 02, 2019

All that Free Beauty . . . Plant a Garden

The stars are ours, all of us, a beauty that never ends, changes interestingly, and...

July 01, 2019

Berkeley is Beautiful

I spent several Glorious Fourths in Berkeley, California. Perhaps, the most old fashioned rousingly patriotic...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Wrong Ideas Were Helpful (Heraclitus)

Wrong ideas can be helpful. . . Sometimes. Nobody ought to wish to be wrong, but...

June 21, 2019

Ancient Witches VII (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

Dido isn’t the only character in Vergil’s Aeneid who resorts to necromancy when she hits...

June 19, 2019

This Juneteenth and all the Summer Days: Unwritten (Tracy K. Smith)

Sometimes we should read before opining: Unwritten Neither do I think it would at all...

June 13, 2019

The Five Worst Arguments (or Claims) Made By Internet Theists

Some arguments are so bad, nobody should make them. In fact, making them slaps a...

June 10, 2019

Be Wary Of Learning Many Things (Heraclitus!)

Wisdom cannot be Googled. As a kid growing up, I did not have Google, but...

June 09, 2019

Daddy King (The Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.) an Autobiography

The famous son should not overshadow the great father: there would be no Martin Luther...

June 08, 2019

Ancient Witches V: (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from...

June 05, 2019

D-Day 75: Rest In Peace Cousin Paul and Twenty-Somethings Get Ready for D-Day 150 Now

Seventy-five years ago, Cousin Paul was on a landing craft helping liberate Europe from Naziism....

June 04, 2019

What no man should want: A Lesson from Harriet Vane (Dorothy Sayers)

A curse might be that a male gets what he thinks he wants. If all...

June 02, 2019

Ancient Witches IV (Guest Voice James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from...

June 01, 2019

Christ Washed The Feet of Judas (George Marion McClellan)

Mary and Martha, prayer and labor, grace and justice: that is the balance we all...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

The (Nearly) Boundless Soul (Heraclitus)

232 You would not find out the boundaries of soul, even by travelling along every...

May 30, 2019

The Monotheistic Turn Toward Philosophy and Science: Against Polytheism and Atheism (Heraclitus)

250 Those who speak with sense must rely on what is common to all, as...