August 19, 2019
August 09, 2019
European Central Bank weakens financial sector and erodes cultural norms
Deutsche Bank, once one of the giants of European finance, is in deep financial trouble. Matt Egan of CNN Business helpfully summarizes the difficulties,
Germany’s biggest lender is rapidly slashing jobs, it’s losing a ton of money and the stock is trading near all-time lows. Continue Reading...
August 07, 2019
Sphere sovereignty and limited (and legitimate) government
The Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper is well-known for his articulation of sphere sovereignty, and the following passage from the third volume of his Common Grace trilogy is a clear and balanced summary of this doctrine, particularly as it relates to the limits of government action. Continue Reading...
August 06, 2019
The El Paso shooting: The rise of Racial Collectivist Terrorism
On Sunday, the nation’s heart broke again as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius opened fire inside an El Paso Walmart, killing 22 people and injuring at least 26 individuals between the ages of two and 82. Continue Reading...
August 05, 2019
A Quaker economist’s lesson on seeking the truth together
There are several things, universally known, which one is never supposed to discuss over dinner: religion, politics, and money. I violate this generally well regarded rule on a regular basis while never impeding my digestion. Continue Reading...
July 31, 2019
Simon Leys on Christopher Hitchens, Mother Teresa & “The Empire of Ugliness”
One of my favorite contemporary writers is Theodore Dalrymple, whose essays I first discovered in The New Criterion about 20 years ago. He wrote that one of his favorite writers, who also had a pen name, was the essayist and critic Simon Leys who died in 2014. Continue Reading...
July 30, 2019
Viktor Frankl on the error of the pleasure principle
Aristotle asked what made the good life? Was it pleasure, material wealth, honor, or virtue?
He argued that while pleasure, wealth, and honor were a part of a good life and human happiness, they could not constitute it. Continue Reading...
July 26, 2019
Inadequate: Catholic magazine explains why it published Communist propaganda
If Dean Dettloff’s “The Catholic Case for Communism” were intended to be thought-provoking, it raises only one question: Why did America magazine facilitate this mendacious PR exercise?
Editor Fr. Matt Malone, S.J.. Continue Reading...
July 25, 2019
There is no ‘Catholic case for communism’
On Tuesday, the Jesuit-run America magazine published an apology for Communism that would have been embarrassing in Gorbachev-era Pravda. “The Catholic Case for Communism” minimizes Marxism’s intensely anti-Christian views, ignores its oppression and economic decimation of its citizens, distorts the bulk of Catholic social teaching on socialism, and seemingly ends with a call to revolution. Continue Reading...
July 22, 2019
Alejandro Chafuen in Forbes: Opus Dei and Jesuit priests against socialism
For most of the 20th century, Marxism set its sights on state authority and openly political and economic goals. In more recent decades, though, many proponents of Marxism and other socialist stripes have sought to sow change on a societal and cultural level – a trend which some have termed “cultural Marxism.” Continue Reading...
