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January 2023

January 20, 2023

Love, Death, and Mr. Joyboy

The nigher the end, the wonkier the appetite. Whether it’s Jay and Silent Bob in...

August 2022

August 08, 2022

A Slow Death in Oslo

Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st (2011) is the perfect film to watch as an early...

March 2022

March 13, 2022

The Bitter Tears of the Working Class

Have you ever sat down to read a John Updike novel or John Cheever story...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

Notes from the Academic Necropolis

As of late, I’ve seen a few discussions of modern college education on both Twitter...

July 2019

July 03, 2019

Traditionalism, Fruit of Vatican II

Traditionalist orders and parishes are on the rise. The Dutch Dominicans are full of new...

July 02, 2019

Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy

Christianity is a communal religion; it coheres in a Church, a body of believers spiritually-...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

Secular Religion and Our Liberal Future

A debate has been unfolding in the (digital) pages of Church Life Journal: Troutner v....

March 19, 2019

Christianity and Christchurch

First and foremost, we must pray for the victims, their families, and the assailants themselves....

August 2017

August 09, 2017

Subsidarity Is Not Libertarianism

Subsidiarity is a word that gets thrown around a good deal in Catholic circles. Typically,...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

Catholicism and Marx: An Introduction

Catholic readers found an ally in Marx because he was interested in many of the...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Self-Interest: A Bogeyman

Self-Interest gets spoken about quite a bit these days, whether in its economic or political...

November 2016

November 14, 2016

Communist Francis? Sure, Why Not?

One must be very careful when speaking about Communism, and I don’t mean because it’s...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Donald Trump: Human, All Too Human

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Who is Donald Trump: savior, pragmatic choice,...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

An Orthodox Catholic Socialism?

I’m sorry to say that the new semester has overwhelmed me. Thousands of pages of...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

The Pope of Justice and the Year of Mercy

Pope Francis—pontifex maximus of cheap grace and haphazard forgiveness, the kind of bishop who would’ve...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

The Socialist Roots of Catholic Social Teaching

As many a Catholic site repeats in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ rising political fortunes,...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Forgetting the Poor, We Got Trump

Non-Trump voters do not get Trump: this goes for Democrats, Republicans, most analysts, my colleagues,...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

The Not So Dumpf Donald Drumpf

If you haven’t seen John Oliver’s methodical takedown of Trump, I recommend you check it...

February 24, 2016

Karl Marx: Moralist

If you’d asked me a year ago, I’m not sure I could’ve envisioned myself writing...

February 12, 2016

Leave Mount Saint Mary’s Alone

Well I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board...