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Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship
We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between so-called gender critical feminists and trans activists. Professional scholars might once have been expected to bring … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, higher education, Ideology, philosophy, radicalism, scholarship, social change
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How Not to Criticize Silicon Valley
Paul Ingrassia at The American Conservative has published a polemic entitled “The Religious Fanaticism of Silicon Valley Elites.” It should be noted that Ingrassia is himself Catholic, so he has no beef with religion per se. Just as the zealous … Continue reading
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Tagged Silicon Valley, the american conservative, yuval levin
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Chesus
It does not take much detective work to understand that Marxism is, in many respects, another branch of the Judeo-Christian tree, most notably in its millenarian fantasies, but also in, one way or another, its sanctification of poverty. Many religions, … Continue reading
Thought For The Day
“Humanism is a secular religion thrown together from decaying scraps of Christian myth.” John Gray, Straw Dogs (2002)
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Tagged Christianity, John Gray, Secular humanism
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The Difference Between Berkeley and NYC is Collapsing
The New York Times recently published a piece on Wiccans in New York City, “Witchcraft in the #MeToo Era.” Despite the name, the article has nothing to do with #MeToo – there are no tales or even allusions to Wiccan … Continue reading
China: Holy See No Evil
Cross-posted on the Corner: It’s no great secret that Roman Catholic ‘social’ teaching, normally seen as a form of corporatism, is a touch difficult to reconcile with free market economics, even more so in the era of Pope Francis, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Sorondo, China, Roman Catholicism, Vatican
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Palmyra’s Earlier Attackers
From The Spectator, a review of a new book, The Darkening Age, on Christianity’s early centuries. I haven’t read the book itself (it’s not out in this country until next year), but judging by the review it looks interesting, no … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, ISIS, Monotheism, Suffering as a blessing
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The Transhumanist ‘Threat’
The Jesuits’ America magazine is a somewhat overwrought publication, and a recent article (“Who’s afraid of Transhumanism? (We all should be)”) it ran on the ‘threat’ posed by ‘Transhumanism’ was no exception. If I had to guess, Transhumanism, a fancy word for an … Continue reading
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The Attacks in Catalonia: “Blind” Violence?
Cross-posted on the Corner. Pope Francis on last year’s Nice attack (via the National Catholic Register): Pope Francis condemned the attack on Bastille Day Celebrations in France, calling it an act of “blind violence.” While Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the man … Continue reading