Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Walmart Inc. has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a “white supremacy system” and teaches white, hourly wage employees that they are guilty of “white supremacy thinking” and “internalized racial superiority.” According to a cache of internal documents I have obtained from a whistleblower, Walmart launched the program … Read more
The essence of totalitarianism is the abolition of private life and privacy. In the modern, capitalist world, we have seen a merger of politics and lifestyle: If you know two Americans each following an unusual diet, one vegan and one paleo, you can reliably guess how each one votes. Same for a yoga enthusiast and … Read more
It’s gotten so that one of the greatest thought crimes today is hope or optimism. When you centre your identity around grievance, those who are happy with their lives represent a betrayal pic.twitter.com/vWio6zslXk — Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) May 11, 2021 This view that other people are bad is sad and incorrect, and here’s one way … Read more
This crudity of language is only one symptom of our descent into barbarism. Our disheveled fashion sense is another. But one of the much darker signs of our drift toward barbarism is the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill passed by Democrats in the House of Representatives on Friday, Sept. 24. The bill seeks to … Read more
Oct. 2 is the feast day of the guardian angels, just three days after the feast of the archangels. These liturgical days provide a great reason to refresh your devotion to the angelic beings that surround us at every moment. These are five prayers that every Catholic should know and pray to increase their devotion … Read more
Its celebration is a defining mark of his presidency. One of Bill Clinton’s slippery slogans in the 1990s was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” But the Left never cared for the ambivalence about abortion that that slogan conveyed. To counter that ambivalence, Planned Parenthood launched a campaign to celebrate abortion straightforwardly. It … Read more
Justice Samuel Alito rebutted Thursday what he called “unfair and damaging attacks” on the Supreme Court over its emergency adjudication of politically-charged cases, such as the Texas heartbeat law, which recently went into effect after the bench declined to block it. Responding to criticisms that the conservative-dominated court has been strategically rushing into hasty decisions … Read more
Last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas arrived at the University of Notre Dame to speak about the Declaration of Independence. Speaking invitations like this that Thomas accepts are few and far between. Anyone who cares about our country and listens to this address will wish that he would agree to speak more. His presentation … Read more
In this valley of tears, every man is born to weep, and all must suffer, by enduring the evils that take place every day. But how much greater would be the misery of life, if we also knew the future evils that await us! ‘Unfortunate, indeed, would be the situation of someone who knows the … Read more
Some may see today’s “we will not comply” movement as a modern trend, but civil disobedience has a rich history in America. In response to the COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates, the phrase “we will not comply” and sentiments of civil disobedience have become increasingly popular. Parents at school board meetings have been chanting the famous … Read more
President Biden is wrong: The Supreme Court lacks the “supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought.” . . . On Wednesday, the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a challenge to S.B. 8, Texas’s new abortion law. This unique statute empowers private citizens to sue those who perform or facilitate abortions. President Biden … Read more
The sin and sorrow of despotism is not that it does not love men, but that it loves them too much and trusts them too little. G.K. Chesterton, “Robert Browning” Related PostsThe authoritarian personality Dictator in chief Biden’s ‘extreme’ hypocrisy To Politicians: We Don’t Need Your Help Making Good Decisions 5 Ways You Can Fight … Read more
Many of us have spent the last week glued to our televisions watching the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. A marauding and medieval religious cult, the Taliban are famous for banning education for women, forcing young girls into marriage and vicious corporal punishment or worse for those who fail to adhere to the strictures … Read more
Freedom flows not from remaking each other, but from loving one another. My father-in-law, Alexander Guttmann, was an erudite Talmudic scholar. He was trained in academic critical scholarship (what that once meant before CRT and its friends came along), as well as in the more ancient Jewish version of disciplined study. From those perspectives, he … Read more
It is all too easy in these troublous times to become discouraged and disheartened. What preserves us from such despondency is the ability to see the bigger picture. We must see things as God sees them, as far as this is possible. We must see all of time, all of history, from the omnipresent perspective … Read more
It’s understandable that we’re now paying a lot of attention to Joe Biden’s risky proposals for higher taxes and a bigger welfare state. After all, it’s a very bad idea to copy the economic policies of nations such as Italy, France, and Greece (unless, of course, you want much lower living standards). But let’s not … Read more
Tom Jones is still alive, with all his good and all his evil; he is walking about the streets; we meet him every day. We meet with him, we drink with him, we smoke with him, we talk with him, we talk about him. The only difference is that we have no longer the intellectual … Read more
The worldwide socialist project killed something like 100 million people over the course of the 20th century. But not all of its victims are dead. . . . The socialist strongmen of the 20th century differed in important ways from their progressive admirers in the United States and the rest of the free world, but … Read more
There are two cities, the city of the godly and the city of the ungodly. These have been with us since the human race began, and they will continue to the end of the world. On the Day pf Judgement they will be separated for all to see. St. Augustine, Catechetical Instructions 31 Related PostsFreedom … Read more
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it … Read more
The Church is not a thing like the Athenaeum Club,’ he cried.’ If the Athenaeum Club lost all its members, the Athenaeum Club would dissolve and cease to exist. But when we belong to the Church we belong to something which is outside all of us which is outside everything you talk about, outside the … Read more
As Hannah Arendt has pointed out, transforming questions of fact of fact into questions of intent has been the great achievement of twentieth century totalitarians. It is a dangerous achievement that has survived the collapse of both fascist and Communist empires and has become a hallmark of much of the Western intelligentsia. Thomas Sowell, “The … Read more
Joe Biden calls himself a “devout Catholic.” Sorry, Joe, but your claim is bogus and your hypocrisy rank, as can be seen in the whole recent communion controversy. That Catholic bishops shouldn’t have to deny Joe Biden communion because of his support for abortion, which the church considers a grave sin, is a point correctly … Read more
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin — a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was … Read more
We shouldn’t live by prehistoric superstition when we have better alternatives, but we shouldn’t sneer at our forebears as primitive — they would recognize us, and we should recognize them and recognize ourselves in them. As James George Frazer argued in The Golden Bough, magic is the embarrassing ancestor of science, the fruit of mankind’s … Read more