“If you thought the Catholic Church and American culture were doing just fine up until Vatican II, you won’t think so after reading the devastating critique of Carol Jackson Robinson. Robinson is truly the American Chesterton, yet even more militant and provocative, combining profound spiritual wisdom, penetrating analysis, and an exquisite sensus catholicus. Reading her… Read More Carol Robinson’s ‘This Perverse Generation’
By Carol Jackson Robinson,Feb. 1951. Here seems to be a law of diminishing resistance, whereby people corrupt easier and quicker as progressive barriers come down. For instance if someone were to institute nude bathing, I would be surprised to find much general disapproval. Certainly nothing to compare with the hullabaloo said to have been aroused… Read More About Television. 1951.
By Mike Kerrigan WSJ / MSN. Shortly after passing through airport security, I realized my shoes were in desperate need of a shine. I stopped at Executive Shine in Charlotte, N.C., and took a seat in the regal bank of elevated chairs. An employee approached and, after confirming I was good on time, got to… Read More A Blessing for the Sole.
What good is “progress” in the wrong direction Chesterton asked. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates… The Jetsons fantasy. After Oppenheimer? Really? But, the Progressives retort, it’s only crazy reactionaries who oppose Penicillin —or Planned Parenthood (as if these were morally equivalent) who oppose Progress. No specious rationalization can justify R&D technology for… Read More Localism — or what?
