It is simply impossible to agree on ethics, on how to act, on what is good and what is not, if you disagree about metaphysics or anthropology. And since ethics is unavoidable, so is anthropology.
It is a part of the destiny of man, wrote Malcolm Muggeridge, "to pursue both power and love, knowing them to be incompatible...
O God, in your mercy, deliver your people from another column about politics.
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.
It seems, then, that we have entered an era of what might be called moral thuggery.