One of the problems plaguing the free world is that it has largely forgotten meaning and nature of freedom. When people are liberated enough to do more or less what they will, they tend to […]
A couple of months ago, I wrote an anodyne column about integralism, the view that political should be subordinate to spiritual authority. It said that today the subordination would be reversed in practice. Its real […]
Why have people become so crazy when there is so much information and so many experts? To answer, we need to know the basic understandings people rely on. These are evidently leading them astray. So […]
God’s unity and simplicity mean that for Him truth, justice, and power are all the same. He isn’t conflicted, doesn’t do half-measures, and never loses. The evident reality of falsehood and injustice makes that hard […]
The problem with government today is that it leaves out human beings. That’s not an oversight. It follows from the basic principles on which public thought is now carried on. The kind of thought now […]
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 […]
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