In 1977, the French essayist, Jean-François Revel, published a tract with the title "The Totalitarian Temptation."

There is an astonishing amount of bullying going on right now — in academia and elsewhere.

It may not be long before "Ladies and Gentlemen" ceases to start a speech, as the result of blurring the distinction between man and gentleman, and woman and lady.

Thomas Howard explains in clear and beautiful prose the way materialism robs us of beauty, depth, and truth. With laser precision and lyrical ponderings he takes us through the dismal reductionist view of the world to the shimmering significance of the world as sign and sacrament. 

Racism is a real problem, but it's part of a much bigger problem.

It seems, then, that we have entered an era of what might be called moral thuggery.

Re-reading the first chapter of St Paul’s Letter to the Romans recently, it occurred to me that Paul was offering, among other things, a kind of sociological theory of the three stages of society's moral degeneration.

In 1998 Charles Chaput, then the archbishop of Denver, hosted a meeting on “the new technologies and the human person,” co-sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

The Batflu has driven us all batty, with talk of many things most of us never expected we’d have to think about.