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It Takes a (Certain Kind of) Village

One of the advantages socialists have these days is the poverty of our political culture, especially as it pertains to our (lack of) understanding of the rights they are in the process of stripping from us. Those nobly seeking to escape the servitude into which we are rapidly slipping, drawing from a conceptual toolbox withinContinue reading “It Takes a (Certain Kind of) Village”

Is There a Christian Socialism?

And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul: neither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed, was his own; but all things were common unto them. Acts 4:32 No one can at the same time be a sincere Christian and a true Socialist. Pope Pius XIContinue reading “Is There a Christian Socialism?”

Uncritical Critics

I’ll never forget my first encounter with “critical race theory,” or the sickening sensation it produced in my soul. I was sitting in the faculty lounge, before or after a meeting whose practical purpose was characteristically impossible to pin down. One of my colleagues, a friendly and warm hearted man, disarmingly zealous in the serviceContinue reading “Uncritical Critics”

Upping the Ante

David Carlin is an old-time Democrat, dismayed by the depths to which his party has sunk. Pining for the days when his coalition of choice was dominated by politicians innocently seeking to channel benefits to supporters, he laments its capture by a band of ideologues more interested in promoting moral license, irreligion, and racial animosityContinue reading “Upping the Ante”

How We Learned to Love Leviathan

Tocqueville wants us to have a “salutary fear” of the new forms despotism threatens to take in modern times. Fear is a response to evil. Once we see how tyranny deprives us of essential goods, it becomes evident that it is something to be avoided, even at considerable cost. Free will being an essential partContinue reading “How We Learned to Love Leviathan”

A New Old Ideology

It is said that Orpheus’s music compelled even “the pitiless king of the dead” to grant Eurydice her freedom—though not without a catch! I don’t know if Sir George Ivan Morrison will have similar success in freeing us from the chokehold of “the rulers of the world of this darkness” (Eph. 6:12). But God blessContinue reading “A New Old Ideology”