April 28, 2013

Islamic Terror and Suburban Entitlement

The more we congratulate ourselves on our response to terror, the more ineffectual and pathetic it becomes.

March 17, 2013

Pope Francis: Papabile in a Fallen World

Even in a world in the process of abandoning all tradition, the oldest institution of leadership extant carries on.

March 12, 2013

Eugenics and the Closing of the Popular Mind

Yahoo offers a glimpse into the abyss: a peek into the blood-soaked crucible of befuddled popular opinion in the fifth decade of Roe v. Wade.

February 13, 2013

The Institutio​n Athwart History

In our hour of crisis, it is high time that the Church receives a modicum of non-Catholic, conservative praise for its "sealing in the vault" the ideas required by true republicanism and by human flourishing.

February 2, 2013

Madison's Republic

American constitutional problems took a while to show up, on account of the solid foundation of classical republicanism not taken out of the mix. But show up they did.

January 27, 2013

Madison's Constitution

When James Madison shaped and defended throughout 1787 the document which became our Constitution, he did not follow Montesquieu's most important admonitions, but rather presumed to "correct Montesquieu" in three cardinal ways.

January 23, 2013

Thin Skin, Strong Stomach

Only this seemingly odd combination of attributes can explain an American people willing to swallow progressives' sanctimonious destruction of society.

December 2, 2012

A Holiday Meditation on Contingency

Bibamus, moriendum est: the message to carry us through Advent in 2012.

November 15, 2012

A Declaration of Grievances

The behavior of our federal government is and long has been eerily similar to what led the colonists in the 18th century to rebel against Great Britain in the first place.

October 21, 2012

A 21^st-Century De Anima: Why Vamps and Zombs are So Wildly Popular with the Humanists

The cultural phenomenon is undeniable: vampire and zombie phantasmagoria is in its heyday, especially among Gen-Xers and younger. But are we looking at a myth...or an anthropology?

June 14, 2010

Abby's Odyssey: In Defense of the Sunderlands

Abby Sunderland's recent adventure has everyone questioning teen safety. It all depends one how one defines it.