The New Criterion. “Progressives do seem especially concerned for their own virtue. But I think the concern is more oftenfor being seen as virtuous. Being good is a great deal harder than appearing to be good, if only because the course of real goodness is diabolically difficult to chart. Real goodness is often private and unacknowledged, because… Read More What do progressives really want? By Lionel Shriver
By Solange Hertz. Opinion. The readers of Time magazine were assured in the summer of 1992 that “within the next hundred years … all states will recognize a single global authority.” The author of the article was Strobe Talbott, member of the CFR, former Rhodes Scholar and President Clinton’s roommate at Oxford. Mr. Talbott, at… Read More The Family’s Threat to Utopia
Excerpt, Opinion /. by Bradford T. Still, PMD “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, Okay?” Thus spoke our once and current president in January 2016, during a campaign rally at Dordt College, a church related institution in lows. By all accounts, the crowd… Read More A Devout Meditation on Violence in the Age of Trump.
By Mark Brumley, Catholic World Report. June 2020 Recently, the Second Vatican Council’s legitimacy and value have again been challenged. Some observers behave as if Benedict XVI saw Vatican II as a problem and proposed a “hermeneutic of continuity” to overcome the problem. Some people who act this way think Benedict XVI’s approach has failed. … Read More Benedict XVI, Vatican II, and the “hermeneutic of reform”. Opinion.
