Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
But the nature of partisanship in America has changed in recent years. The parties have become fundamentalist religions. The Democratic party hierarchy has made extreme abortion policy a primary doctrine and has demonstrated that a price will be paid for apostasy. For Democratic politicians, the penalty is a full-on effort to end one’s political career. … Read more
You hold that your heretics and sceptics have helped the world forward and handed on a lamp of progress. I deny it. Nothing is plainer from real history than that each of your heretics invented a complete cosmos of his own which the next heretic smashed entirely to pieces. Who knows now exactly what Nestorius … Read more
[W]ithin the Catholic Church today there are two churches. One is the establishment church of the USCCB, the big old “Catholic” universities, the old established religious orders, their mainstream publishing houses, websites and papers. This Catholicism is virtually indistinguishable from. mainstream Protestantism. (which is why they don’t do ecumenism anymore) This establishment church is in … Read more
The governor is aware that a New York City and/or State without rich people would have to rethink the way it does basically everything. Then-mayor Mike Bloomberg famously described New York City in 2003 as a “luxury product,” and therefore priced accordingly. The price hasn’t changed, except to go up slightly — taxes, rents, everything. … Read more
The presumptive Democrat nominee, former senator, and, so says Politico, “devout Catholic [who] has recited Scripture on the 2020 campaign trail and is known to carry rosary beads in his pocket,” has been challenged by CatholicVote to do something that should come easily to any devout Catholic, indeed to devout non-Catholics: “publicly condemn the disturbing … Read more
Peter Winkler: Professor Loury, hundreds of thousands of people in American cities have been protesting that police treat black people more harshly than other populations. The reason, they say, is systemic racism. What do you think? Glenn Loury: This is a representation that has developed a life of its own. The claim is: the police … Read more