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Camille Paglia, Plato, and the paradox of freedom

December 13, 2018 Vivian Dudro 14

Camille Paglia is an enigma. Identifying more with males than females since childhood, Paglia calls herself trans; yet she rejects a key false assumption of transgender ideology: “The cold biological truth is that sex changes […]

The Dispatch

Trump and the triumph of the dramatic style

August 14, 2018 Philip Primeau 8

Increasingly, politics becomes performative bloodsport, along the lines of professional wrestling, with citizens playing the role of titillated fans howling from the bleachers. […]

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Terrorism, restlessness, and Bastille Day

July 11, 2018 Jerry Salyer 12

The tantalizing lie of revolution is the idea that heaven-on-earth sits right around the corner, provided some hated class can be overthrown and then purged […]

The Dispatch

Two SCOTUS cases may well reveal “the demon in democracy”

March 29, 2018 Russell Shaw 7

Cases from California and Colorado involving two different social issues—abortion and same-sex marriage—raise the same question about free speech and conscience. […]

Ecclesia et Civitas

Is America a revolutionary ideological state?

February 2, 2018 James Kalb 13

We find ourselves in an increasingly ideological society whose ideology is ever more anti-human, anti-Catholic, and compulsory. […]

Features

Natural law outside Catholicism? Regime-agnosticism and agnostic regimes

December 17, 2017 Timothy J. Gordon 11

The question at hand is: what do we make of America’s schizophrenic natural law pedigree, rejecting but needing Catholic ideas? (And John Locke, history’s most […]

The Dispatch

A modest defense of the “liberal world order”

February 22, 2017 George Weigel 1

Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I understand that some people have been the victims of a globalized world economy and that the “Davos people” […]

Books

Is liberal democracy closer to Communism or Catholicism?

February 3, 2017 Jerry Salyer 4

While dialogue with non-Catholics, non-Christians, or even anti-Christians may sometimes be perfectly appropriate, Ryszard Legutko is quite right, in The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, to highlight the fine line which divides […]

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