I have never met or known anyone in my long decades who thought slavery was a good thing. In fact I’ve never personally met or knew of a racist in the large circles I ‘ran’ with. I would immediately distance myself against anyone who thought like that. (It’s one of the reasons I think Nick… Read More Lincoln, the 19th Century South, and the Civil War
“In this two-part episode of Thinking Out Loud, Nathan Rittenhouse and Cameron McAllister dive deep into the fascinating idea of being “crypto-religious”—a term coined by Polish poet Czesław Miłosz and revived in Paul Elie’s new book The Last Supper. Together, Nathan and Cameron explore how artists like Bob Dylan, Madonna, Prince, Bono, and Andy Warhol… Read More Crypto-religous Music and Art?
I think it is critical to notice when the trees seem to be advancing against the Christian Worldview, and who has been charged with leading the assault. The aim has been to tear apart the Christian world and its traditional moral values from the beginning, and to substitute a “Rules Based” “Liberal” Order in a… Read More The Pied Pipers of the Old ‘Liberal World Order’. Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell.
By Victor Bruno | New Oxford Review, October 2025 Victor Bruno is an author whose writing has been featured in VoegelinView, The Political Science Reviewer, In Medias Res, Sacred Web, The Fortnightly Review, and elsewhere. He has two books published in Portuguese, the latest being René Guénon Revelado (2023). He also writes the newsletter Cartas da… Read More The Danger of Equating the Church with the Mass
Ross Douthat writes, “He may believe that the age of American-led globalization is ending no matter what, that after the pandemic certain walls will stay up everywhere, and that the goal for the next 50 years is to consolidate what you can — resources, talent, people, territory — inside your own civilizational walls. In this… Read More Putin The New Czar?
“Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.” —SIR WILLIAM OSLER, MD | Trent Horn of Catholic Answers and Fr. Matthew Schneider discuss vaccines historically, the newer mRNA technology, and the medical and moral issues involved in the use of… Read More Moral Issues Related to Covid Vaccines. Updated Opinion.
By Brendan O’Neill, Spiked Online “Normally a left-wing party has to exist before it can start splitting. Not Your Party. The Corbyn-Sultana loonfest has leapt right over the founding conference and manifesto-writing business and gone straight for the People’s Front of Judea routine. This fledgling gang of soy socialists that promised to save Britain from… Read More The collapse of Your Party is hilarious — Opinion
Why is it happening? Why all the talk over many years about the attempt at overcoming biological genetic barriers? How has “Science” itself been transvalued? And how dangerous is it all? Who are the key Internationalist players? Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzeziński, Peter Singer, Bill Gates…and so many others. A new religion called “Science” with all of… Read More Internationalist Power and the “Scientific” “Great Reset”
Proportionality in all conflicts is to be desired as I have stated many times over many years. War is hell. Hamas knew what it was doing. It was deliberately trying to provoke a war by a vicious sneak attack in a period of relative stability. Proportionality is the ideal, but history shows it is seldom… Read More The Consequences of Hamas’ War
How has the war in Gaza reverberated throughout American politics? Opinion columnist Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat debate the implications of the Israel-Gaza conflict on antisemitism, the morality of war, and why “Monday morning quarterbacking” is not productive when taking stock of military actions in the Middle East.
Environmental Socialist Naomi Klein says Elon Musk and some “fascist” Maga friends have “given up on this world” and given in to a secular “Apocalyptic Fever”. In consequence they are using this planet, she says, to extract from this world fossil fuels, critical minerals, water…”anything that can be used for energy and money with a… Read More Artificial World? “End Time Fascism?” Third Temple?
Patrick Bet-David explains how Nixon’s 1972 visit to China and China’s 2001 entry into the WTO triggered the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs. From cheap labor costs driving outsourcing to the devastation of states like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, this video explores the economic fallout on Middle America, the rise of the Rust… Read More Trump’s Logic on Tariffs. Opinion.
Who or What is Preparing to Take Over After Donald Trump? Courtesy, The New Republic | Photo NY Times. Top. | July 22, 2024 | Opinion. Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society. In 2008, a software… Read More Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno – Authoritarian Ideas. [Opinion].
Updated. Tucker Carlson liked Moscow’s clean streets and low crime rate. But he did not confront Putin’s abuses of power as alleged by Western powers. “Vladimir Putin is a thug and a murderer and a killer and a KGB agent,” Senator John McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Dec. 11, 2016. Putin, who… Read More A Short List of Alleged Crimes of Vladimir Putin
“Top diplomats from the United States and Russia met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine and improving relations between Washington and Moscow. The Riyadh summit represents a monumental shift in U.S. policy after the Biden administration led an international effort to isolate Russia over its invasion and gave tens… Read More Victory for Putin in Ukraine? Jeffrey Sachs and Matt Duss Debate War.
“The Former Border Patrol Agent’s Ambitious Plans to Reform U.S. Immigration Policy Put Him on a Collision Course With [Liberal] U.S. Bishops. And he said this week, “I love the Catholic Church. The Pope has lost his way. He needs to fix the Catholic Church and leave the borders to us.” Tom Homan grew up in… Read More Trump’s Catholic Border Czar Sees Humanitarian Mandate
Gender extremism, racial equity and decarbonising’ electricity by 2030. Rory & Alastair leading. But “There’s nothing moderate about the technocratic elites.” Tom Slater, Editor.Spiked, [published on 29th June 2024]. We need to retire the word ‘centrism’. As a ‘centrist’ Labour Party is poised to reclaim power in the United Kingdom, The supposed centrists are already… Read More Rory & Alastair: The revenge of the ‘centrist’ globalists.
Thieving from the Future. “There are two particular categories of money which have afflicted Ireland. One was dirty money, which is the kind of money that’s swishing around the economic system . . . tax-dodging money from the corporations. And that, of course, means that we, the people of Ireland, including me, including you, James,… Read More John Waters: Vacant Possession of Ireland?
Opinion. Amed Khan describes himself as a human rights advocate, political activist, financier and philanthropist. He goes to the front lines of humanitarian crises on his own and uses his personal wealth and networks to deliver whatever the communities say they need. Amed has two decades of experience working in conflict zones and humanitarian relief.… Read More Amed Khan and the Children of Gaza
If Christian leaders of most denominations won’t speak up for Christians enduring great suffering across the world, he asks, why have them? And government leaders? “How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the west, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from… Read More Tucker Carlson: Standing Up for Christians Not Allowed in Modern Wars?
…Or does he want to develop them with Ukraine to the benefit of the American people? Opinion. Washington Post 12/18/24 Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine. Ukraine is not only… Read More Does Trump Want Putin to Get Ukraine’s $26 trillion in gas and minerals?
Did “Hamas actually want Israel to invade Gaza? Is there a danger that this tragic situation will strengthen the hand of the ultra-nationalist Israeli right? How should the international community respond to the war between Israel and Hamas?Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart last year were joined by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari to address all… Read More Can Israel Ever Live Peacefully With Gazans Again?
September 2024. “We officially record our dissent regarding the “Pact of the Future”, and invite all the nations of the free world to join us, not only in dissenting this pact but also for creating a new agenda for this noble institution (The UN). The agenda of FREEDOM From this day forward Argentina will be… Read More Argentine President Declared Globalism “Collectivism With Malthusian Blinders” Over
Analysis / Opinion by Brendan O’Neill of Spiked Online. O’Neil has defended Catholics as well against instances of unfair hate-inspired “news” and black legend-like propaganda. He is author of the new book After the Pogrom.
Col. Douglas McGregor: The world has changed since Trump’s last term. It remains to be seen whether it is even possible for him to achieve his major foreign policy goals, specifically in the Mideast and vis a vis Ukraine and China. “In 2020, president Donald Trump proposed [McGregor] as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, but the U.S. Senate blocked the… Read More Trump in a Changed World
Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, proportionality and preemptive strikes. Fr. Charles McCarthy, a Melkite Catholic priest in Massachusetts, argues that it might be a “mortal sin” to vote for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in this 2024 Presidential election, since each, he says, are in various ways complicit in “grave evil” by supporting and enabling… Read More A Melkite Catholic Priest Bound to Infuriate Many.
The Curiosity of Family Ownership in the United States. By Phillip Campbell.The Distributist Review. In this essay we will consider an interesting social phenomenon in the United States whereby a very large number of small businesses across a variety of sectors are owned by first generation immigrants. If you do not know what I mean,… Read More The Blessings of Legal Immigration. Aspiring to Ownership.
Updated 10/6. By JACOB SIVAK | Published: MARCH 10, 2022| Jerusalem Report | (JPOST) The renowned American author and masterful satirist Samuel Clemens, also known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an abolitionist, a supporter of women’s rights and a supporter of Jewish emancipation. His attitude toward Jews is evident in his earliest book, The Innocents Abroad… Read More Was Mark Twain’s depiction of Israel in the 1800s accurate?
India Today. New Delhi: What began as a localised conflict between Israel and Hamas has evolved into a multi-front war, with Israel now facing challenges across West Asia. The war has drawn in key regional players, including Iran, which recently escalated tensions by launching a ballistic missile strike on Israeli targets. This has widened the… Read More Israel’s Multi-front Wars
Updated. Andrew Doran and Mary Eberstadt | First Things | 9.5.24 Candace Owens, a Catholic convert and former pundit at the Daily Wire, has come under fire for anti-Semitic rhetoric, including promoting the “blood libel” charge and linking Judaism to pedophilia. She is not alone among Jew-bashers with large online followings trying to claim the label of “Catholic right” these days (notorious anti-Semite Nick Fuentes and… Read More Candace Owens Doesn’t Speak for Catholics
Opinion. By Karel van Wolferen.* In a famous exchange between a high official at the court of George W. Bush and journalist Ron Susskind, the official – later acknowledged to have been Karl Rove – takes the journalist to task for working in “the reality-based community.” He defined that as believing “that solutions emerge from your judicious… Read More Through The American Looking Glass. “We Create Our Own Reality,” He Said
a 2007 British polemical documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the scientific consensus about the reality and causes of climate change, justifying this by suggesting that climatology is influenced by funding and political factors. The show attracted 2.5 million viewers and an audience share of 11.5%. Channel 4 stated that it had received 758 calls and emails about the programme, with those in… Read More Science or Big Business? Global Warming Theory & Dissent
Updated re Alastair Campbell and Douglas Murray. 8/13/24. Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, writer and former diplomat and politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. Stewart served in the UK Government as Minister of State for Environment (2015-16), International Development (2015-16), Africa (2016-18) and Prisons (2018-19) and then as Secretary of State for International Development (2019). In 2019, Stewart stood for Leader of… Read More Opinion. Rory Sewart & Alastair John Campbell on Riots in the UK and American Politics
It is alleged. Democrats are stuck with Kamala Harris as their nominee against Donald Trump and are working hard to whitewash her record. Google Search Engine put on notice. Kamala Harris has *extensive* communist ties. Author and Filmmaker Trevor Loudon writes, “I have conducted painstaking research into Kamala Harris, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee. My… Read More Red Diaper Baby?
First, the Problem. The famous Thomist philosopher Etienne Gilson writes, surely accurately, in his Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, “… at the very place where the Summa of Alexander and the Commentary of St. Bonaventure undertake to show that the existence of God is evident, St. Thomas devotes an article to proving that it… Read More Gilson, Saint Thomas and The Self-Attesting God
Opinion. Peter Robinson and Douglas Murray. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on The Sunday Times bestseller list and was a Number 1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide and has been read and… Read More October 7, Gaza and the Case for Israel
*|* What’s next for Syria’s Christians After Assad’s Fall? (Opinion) Opinion. The other side of the story: Robert Spencer: The Roots of the Hamas-Israeli War. What the Left doesn’t care to Face. “Robert Spencer was baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church and joined the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1984.[21][22] Spencer has stated that, under the reign of President Mustafa Kemal… Read More Israel Has Been Facing Much Backlash from the Western Left. But History is Long & Has Its Warnings.
Updated. See Thomas Merton on Moral Chaos, and “the worst insanity” below. Tucker Carlson criticizes the United States foreign policy and the persecution of Christians in the world. The Guardian 2019: Persecution of Christians ‘coming close to genocide’ in Middle East – report Patrick Wintour in Addis AbabaThu 2 May 2019 17.00 EDT Pervasive persecution of Christians, sometimes… Read More Carlson: A Consistent Theme Of American Foreign Policy: Christians Suffer
Updated. Note: My only interest in the following clip is the first segment because Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who served as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States 2011 to 2016, said much the same thing early in the pandemic. While much is appreciated, no total agreement with the views of Tucker Carlson is implied. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, appointed… Read More Opinion. Florida Surgeon General Calls MRNA Covid Vax “The Antichrist of All Products”
Modern de facto Paganism often caves to the passions, but in ancient times it was not always so. Stoic wisdom is not theology, but is often good psychology in harmony with Christian ideals. The Magi also brought their gifts. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever is true, whatsoever is honorable, whatsoever is just, whatsoever is pure, whatsoever is… Read More Stoic Gems: The Porch and the Cross
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