1. In the early modern and modern periods of Western history, the religious establishment comprised of the various churches and the political establishments with which they were affiliated or which they supported feared liberal philosophies […]
Withholding the Eucharist – America Magazine argues that no one should be banned from the Eucharist. No one? Really? What about the unbaptized. Are they free to receive? What about Satanists? The Apologetics of Abuse […]
A common theme of many postliberal thinkers is that we are too often hemmed in by the boundaries and limits of contemporary thinking. As David Schindler, D.C. Schindler, Michael Hanby, Patrick Deneen, and others have […]
Last month I complained about formal expertise. Although often very useful, I said, it can be blind to obvious realities. The problem is that it wants its authority to seem indisputably objective and reliable. For […]
The trans agenda – “The triumph of male swimmer Lia Thomas (formerly Will Thomas) is national news because it shows there are no limits to the charade of trans ideology.” The Trans Lobby Doesn’t Just Want […]
In his classic book Suicide of the West, James Burnham famously characterized liberalism as “the ideology of Western suicide.” I’ve been meaning for some time to write up an essay on the book. This isn’t it. […]
Blessed John Henry Newman’s devastating critique of liberal religion remains even more relevant in our own time. […]
We talk about freedom as if we knew what it is, but it’s a tricky business. Issues relating to health are a constant source of dispute, so they dramatize some of the problems. Medical freedom […]
Sohrab Ahmari emerged onto the American intellectual scene several years ago and is now, only in his mid-30s, an op-ed editor at The New York Post. But as one can tell from his first book, […]
During his 1977 rookie year with the Baltimore Orioles, future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray got a piece of advice from veteran Lee May: If you’ve got talent, May told the 21-year-old slugger, fame can’t […]
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