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March 19, 2026
Gender
Margaret Harper McCarthy
Keeping “Biological Sex” on Solid Ground

A Re-examination of “Stereotypes.”

Keeping “Biological Sex” on Solid Ground
February 10, 2026
AI, Technology
D. C. Schindler
AI as a Very Deepfake

Bringing the dead back to life.

AI as a Very Deepfake
January 16, 2026
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy

You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.

Broken, Bleeding, Begging for Mercy
January 12, 2026
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Delete Magisterium AI

Magisterium AI—the Catholic chatbot that Sanders characterizes as a paver on “the Golden Path”—is bad.

Delete Magisterium AI
November 11, 2025
AI, Technology
Marc Barnes
Why Chatbots Are Female

The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female. 

Why Chatbots Are Female
Marc Barnes
November 22, 2021
Money

Capitalism is for Big Babies

Marc Barnes
November 22, 2021
Money
Capitalism is for Big Babies

I used to think that the capitalist was wrong about human nature. Now, I think he is right about human nature—for the first two or three years of its development.

19 Comments
Marc Barnes
November 5, 2021
Technology

We Are Still Just Watching TV

Marc Barnes
November 5, 2021
Technology
We Are Still Just Watching TV

Smartphones are TVs without the stigma.

9 Comments
Marc Barnes
October 6, 2021
Technology

On the Desire to Shoot a Drone

Marc Barnes
October 6, 2021
Technology
On the Desire to Shoot a Drone

The good men I have met desire to destroy drones, as if by a common impulse, and now I understand this as something fitting to their sanctity rather than an exception to its holy rule.

9 Comments
Marc Barnes
September 10, 2021
Politics

Why Doesn't the Biden Mandate Acknowledge Natural Immunity?

Marc Barnes
September 10, 2021
Politics
Why Doesn't the Biden Mandate Acknowledge Natural Immunity?

If public health is the goal, we’re doing it wrong.

27 Comments
Marc Barnes
August 31, 2021
Politics

Vaccine Mandates: An American Journey

Marc Barnes
August 31, 2021
Politics
Vaccine Mandates: An American Journey

What does the average American think of the vaccine? The answer may surprise you.

15 Comments
Marc Barnes
August 23, 2021
Politics

The Tyrant, The Family, and the Unmasked Child

Marc Barnes
August 23, 2021
Politics
The Tyrant, The Family, and the Unmasked Child

The family is not threatened with death, but allured by slavery,

7 Comments
Kirby Jones
August 23, 2021
Politics

The American Defeat in Afghanistan is Staggering

Kirby Jones
August 23, 2021
Politics
The American Defeat in Afghanistan is Staggering

Counter-Insurgency never had a chance and it all could make a grown man cry

6 Comments
Marc Barnes
August 5, 2021

What Wicked People Are Like

Marc Barnes
August 5, 2021
What Wicked People Are Like

The wicked tremble and seek better assurances than the promises of God.

7 Comments
Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
July 6, 2021
Politics, The Debate on Integralism, The Christian Society

The Decision Against Carl Schmitt

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
July 6, 2021
Politics, The Debate on Integralism, The Christian Society
The Decision Against Carl Schmitt

For Schmitt enemies and potential enemies are all that really exist. We must assert the very opposite, that friends and partial friends are all that exist.

4 Comments
Marc Barnes
June 25, 2021

The Effects of the Resurrection on Angry People

Marc Barnes
June 25, 2021
The Effects of the Resurrection on Angry People

"Rage against the dying of the light," some post-Christian poet suggested, and we have taken him up on it, not so much on our deathbeds as at our Dairy Queens.

5 Comments
Marc Barnes
June 22, 2021
Technology

Christians Should Cancel Their Amazon Prime Subscriptions

Marc Barnes
June 22, 2021
Technology
Christians Should Cancel Their Amazon Prime Subscriptions

Christians should delete their accounts, temper their spending, and only use Amazon as a search engine for buying directly from companies.

12 Comments
Jacob Imam
June 15, 2021
Money

Crypto-Idolatry: The Theology of Bitcoin

Jacob Imam
June 15, 2021
Money
Crypto-Idolatry: The Theology of Bitcoin

Is crypto-currency really going to save the day?

37 Comments
Marc Barnes
May 31, 2021
Politics

Sticking it out

Marc Barnes
May 31, 2021
Politics
Sticking it out

Children told that they will go far do in fact go far. But by remaining, sticking it out, and living here rather than there, one becomes much more powerful; one develops greater capacities for action; one can do more.

3 Comments
Marc Barnes
May 14, 2021
Politics

Just the Necessities

Marc Barnes
May 14, 2021
Politics
Just the Necessities

Of all the various inventions of modernity, this one stands out as its most impressive: It has ordered man to despise the necessities of life as preventing him from Really Living

4 Comments
Jacob Imam
May 5, 2021
Politics

The End of Politics

Jacob Imam
May 5, 2021
Politics
The End of Politics

Politics is all about virtue because virtue is all about preparing for Heaven. Read on to see how politics is a theological project (and how the Liberals get it wrong).

2 Comments
Michael Higgins
April 23, 2021
Politics

Daylight Saving Time and the Logic of Liberalism

Michael Higgins
April 23, 2021
Politics
Daylight Saving Time and the Logic of Liberalism

Guest blogger Michael Higgins warns against taking one more step away from a world of intrinsic meaning and goodness, and one more step into a world that’s empty until we fill it up.

3 Comments
Robert Mixa
April 9, 2021
Politics

Christian Philosophy and the Thought of Ferdinand Ulrich

Robert Mixa
April 9, 2021
Politics
Christian Philosophy and the Thought of Ferdinand Ulrich

Robert Mixa and D. C. Schindler discuss Ferdinand Ulrich and his unique approach to philosophy and theology.

1 Comment
Jason Craig
March 29, 2021
Money, Politics

Should Men Retire?

Jason Craig
March 29, 2021
Money, Politics
Should Men Retire?

Jason Craig traces the history of retirement and its relationship to family life, good and bad.

Source: https://www.theswordandspade.com/

4 Comments
Michael Hanby
February 26, 2021
Politics

The Birth of Liberal Order and the Death of God: A Reply to Robert Reilly’s America on Trial — Part 3 of 3

Michael Hanby
February 26, 2021
Politics
The Birth of Liberal Order and the Death of God: A Reply to Robert Reilly’s America on Trial — Part 3 of 3

Metaphysical judgments operate tacitly within political and scientific discourse: not as a “system” from which political conclusions are explicitly deduced but as something logically entailed in the basic elements of the discourse itself, and often unarticulated.

1 Comment
Michael Hanby
February 26, 2021
Politics

The Birth of Liberal Order and the Death of God: A Reply to Robert Reilly’s America on Trial — Part 2 of 3

Michael Hanby
February 26, 2021
Politics
The Birth of Liberal Order and the Death of God: A Reply to Robert Reilly’s America on Trial — Part 2 of 3

Here we take up the relation between Hobbes and Locke that forms the central question of Reilly’s pivotal eighth chapter.

1 Comment
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