Why Vampires and Zombies are So Popular with Secular Humanists
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View ArticleJames Madison’s Nonsense-Coup Against Montesquieu (and the Classics too)
In the post-Constitutional American order of 2013, one hears increasingly frequent reference among everyday conservatives to “the real Constitution.” This entails popular The post James Madison’s...
View ArticleWhat Pope Francis Should or May be Saying
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View ArticleThe Greatest Moral Film of All Time
Stricken with infirmity of the helpless visceral sort this Christmas, I wrapped myself in blankets…and list making. As I convalesced and my The post The Greatest Moral Film of All Time appeared first...
View ArticleAppeal to Heaven or Appeal to Law
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View ArticleThin Skin, Strong Stomach: The Anatomy of Political Correctness
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View ArticleRepublicanism and Catholicism’s Only Relevant Partisans
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View ArticlePlagiarizing Catholicism: Algernon Sidney and the Whigs
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View ArticleBundy Ranch and the Blood of Patriots
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View ArticleA Sterling Example of Race Politics
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View ArticleQuiz: The Natural Right of Revolution and Use of Force
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View ArticleWhy Vampires and Zombies are So Popular with Secular Humanists
The cultural phenomenon is undeniable: vampire and zombie phantasmagoria is in its heyday, especially among Gen-Xers and younger. The dis-ensouled human form, both the high (the vampire) and the low...
View ArticleQuestioning American Exceptionalism
“Never to be roused is to forget what honor demands.”–Cicero As of this moment, the American Left no longer carries sole imprimatur to publish recursive screeds dispelling American exceptionalism. The...
View ArticleWhat Pope Francis Should or May be Saying
Catholic Answers’ indefatigable Jimmy Akin recently defended Pope Francis against charges of Marxism leveled by the likes of the irrepressible Rush Limbaugh. In a word, Pope Francis is not a Marxist:...
View ArticleThe Greatest Moral Film of All Time?
What other movie finds itself capable of conjuring to mind the Aristotelian maxim that “goodness is one, evil is manifold”? As the reader can see clearly below, not all of my top twenty-five are...
View ArticleAppeal to Heaven or Appeal to Law
“Those who claim to oppose The Enemy would do well not to hinder us.”—Frodo Baggins, to Captain Faramir of the Minas Tirith Guard “It would be improper to require the consent of the National...
View ArticleRepublicanism and Catholicism’s Only Relevant Partisans
Each electoral cycle, nearly six out of every ten American Catholics cast the ghastly vote of the libertine. As such, one can only assume that the ideas and “lifestyles” emblazoned by these six out of...
View ArticleAlienated Technology: Smart Phone, Dumb Folks
The better technology gets, so also we develop a more efficient method of telecommunication. Always near at hand are the cellular devices like “smart phones,” laptops, and “tablets,” as the...
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