Politics articles
“Medietas, this living-in-the-proper-middle, is not to be confused with mediocritas, with a lukewarm mediocrity that remains simply beneath the demands placed upon man.”
The Right and Left are the fragments of a shattered Christianity.
To wake up in a society in which children cannot be killed is to wake up differently.
We must expect wars to result, not inevitably from the hand of God, but as the bitter fruit of the world's sin.
Fundamental reading for the restoration of Christian politics.
If public health is the goal, we’re doing it wrong.
What does the average American think of the vaccine? The answer may surprise you.
The family is not threatened with death, but allured by slavery,
Counter-Insurgency never had a chance and it all could make a grown man cry
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
Jason Craig traces the history of retirement and its relationship to family life, good and bad.
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.
Here we take up the relation between Hobbes and Locke that forms the central question of Reilly’s pivotal eighth chapter.
Reilly’s argument rests upon a questionable methodology and upon ignoring the profound transformations to the meaning of “nature,” “reason,” “God,” and “Christianity” in early modern mechanistic philosophy.
If ‘integration from within’ is really possible, then what went wrong in Portugal?
For a sovereign state to confess Christ, really and truly, in deed, structure, and word, is the birth of something new.
Author, professor, and radical historian Andrew Willard Jones went on a student podcast and broke down his vision of history.
The truth is that the average person in America today is not equipped to deal with violence beyond the ordinary daily variety without making it worse.
The paranoia with which Barrett’s Catholicism is insulted and questioned has roots that plunge deeper than the paranoid perceive.
Let us shake our addiction and take up political offices in 100 of towns by November 2021.
Understanding “political Catholicism” as a species of bossbabery sheds light on the movement as a whole.