Are Moral Truths and Free Inquiry Being Outlawed in America Today?

Tucker Carlson cancelled by Fox News. Updated. NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) — “Conservative media titan Tucker Carlson and Fox News on Monday “agreed to part ways” effective immediately. Carlson’s last broadcast was April 21, giving the hugely popular host no opportunity to bid farewell to his audience. An announcement from Fox News shared on social media Monday… Read More Are Moral Truths and Free Inquiry Being Outlawed in America Today?

April 24, 2023April 25, 2023 Editor

Videodrome. When the Seven Deadly Sins of Excess Were Morphed Into “Progress”

David Halberstam’s The Fifties: “Selling The American Way” “The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 10 years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower, Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon; but also of… Read More Videodrome. When the Seven Deadly Sins of Excess Were Morphed Into “Progress”

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 Editor

The Bullshit-Job Boom

For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose. Is there any good left in the grind? [The] bullshit employment has come to serve in places like the U.S. and Britain as a disguised, half-baked version of the dole—one attuned specially to a large, credentialled middle class. In “Bullshit Jobs” (Simon & Schuster),… Read More The Bullshit-Job Boom

March 13, 2023April 11, 2023 Editor

Joe and Mika. Who Needs Big Brother?

What makes Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski chief Party Propagandists par excellence? I think it is how with the utmost arrogance and without the slightest attempt at fairness, nuance or balance, they set up their guests with ever-leading questions in such a scripted way as to guarantee the political answers they seek. Day after day… Read More Joe and Mika. Who Needs Big Brother?

December 22, 2022February 16, 2023 Editor

Marshall McLuhan on media manipulation of peoples and nations

McLuhan, 1969: “There’s nothing at all difficult about putting computers in the position where they will be able to conduct carefully orchestrated programing of the sensory life of whole populations. I know it sounds rather science-fictional, but if you understood cybernetics you’d realize we could do it today. The computer could program the media to… Read More Marshall McLuhan on media manipulation of peoples and nations

November 27, 2022November 28, 2022 Editor

Paul Pelosi and the Violence We Care About

The liberal media’s double standards on political violence are horrifying. Brendan O’Neill, Spike Online.Chief Political Writer.31st October 2022. It was the mention of zip ties that got me thinking. Apparently the man who allegedly broke into the San Francisco home of Nancy and Paul Pelosi on Friday was carrying zip ties. A possibly crazed individual… Read More Paul Pelosi and the Violence We Care About

October 31, 2022November 6, 2022 Editor

Thoreau on “News” Media As the “Ruling Powers”

Cynical news media daily turn many a local story, especially tragedies, into national or international stories for political and financial purposes. The media bosses reap all the profit of off spreading fear and shattering nerves. Motives are often far from noble despite all the self-righteous pretense. Henry David Thoreau anticipated this and there is lesson… Read More Thoreau on “News” Media As the “Ruling Powers”

July 6, 2022August 24, 2022 EditorLeave a comment

“Democracies Will Change Their Nature”

“…democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. “Democracy and freedom will be the theme of… Read More “Democracies Will Change Their Nature”

March 9, 2022April 7, 2023 EditorLeave a comment

Muggeridge on the Media

Muggeridge on the Media.June 19, 2017. “IN the 1970s, British journalist and author Malcolm Muggeridge insisted that television news involved deliberate deception. During lectures on the media in London in 1976, he stated: “I remember once returning to my hotel in New York and noticing on the way that a crowd had assembled outside what was… Read More Muggeridge on the Media

March 9, 2022November 25, 2022 EditorLeave a comment

U.S. Media Framing Belief as Pathological

… of Traditional Religious Belief into the Pathological. Observing the not so subtle subtexts in media and their impact in our lives. This Dr. Thomas Hibbs lecture was titled Religious Liberty and Popular Culture Thomas S. Hibbs (November 3, 1960) is an American philosopher and the 9th President of the University of Dallas, a Catholic liberal arts… Read More U.S. Media Framing Belief as Pathological

February 23, 2022April 11, 2022 EditorLeave a comment

Perception, Reality and the Videodrome

“The television screen [or, similarly, Internet ‘entertainment’ programming] has become the retina of the mind’s eye…the battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena, the Videodrome. “Whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality and reality is less… Read More Perception, Reality and the Videodrome

January 5, 2022January 6, 2023 Editor

Media Inducing the Double-Mind

“Have you ever noticed how television and print media will scream themselves hoarse in news documentaries, editorials and heavy analytical pieces about “rising pornography, crime, violence, gunplay” etc.? And yet in the same TV Guide announcing the latest special on “The Crisis of Sex and Violence in America,” there will appear an advertisement for “Miami… Read More Media Inducing the Double-Mind

October 2, 2021January 6, 2023 Editor

St. Pius X on Spiritual Reading & Pope Pius XII on Media

St. Pius X: It is of great importance that the priest should combine his daily divine meditation with the constant reading of pious books, especially the inspired books. That was the command that Paul gave to Timothy: Attend unto reading. The same lesson was taught by St. Jerome when instructing Nepotianus on the priestly life:… Read More St. Pius X on Spiritual Reading & Pope Pius XII on Media

September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 EditorLeave a comment

“Entertainment” Today

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 EditorLeave a comment

An Important Discussion on Race. John Wood and James Lindsay

…an empathetic informed dialogue. See also James Lindsay’s New Discourses site.

July 15, 2021July 17, 2021 EditorLeave a comment

The Battering Ram

In Western Culture Christianity is Out… Note: Most of us understand I think that it is important to distinguish homosexual persons from the elite ideological movements which serve as the vehicle of the totalitarian transformation of language, law, history, culture, institutions and nations in the West. Only the latter is to be considered per se… Read More The Battering Ram

July 7, 2021August 1, 2022 EditorLeave a comment

“Totally Without Ethics” — from “Hate Inc.” by Matt Taibbi

“It used to be a big deal for America to be at war. When eight thousand American troops spent three days shooting Cubans hiding behind palm trees on the island of Grenada, apparently to rescue six hundred medical school students, the country was transfixed. War! Shooting! Helicopters! Awesome! The press swarmed over the island and… Read More “Totally Without Ethics” — from “Hate Inc.” by Matt Taibbi

May 2, 2021May 3, 2021 EditorLeave a comment