Editorials of Interest
What the Notre-Dame fire did to France - Catholic Herald
Until seeing it go up in flames, a nation that prided itself on Enlightenment, rationalism and secularity might easily forget that it still had such a thing as a soul.
Your Silence Isn't Enough - EPPC
Instead of enforcing strict silence, progressives aim to craft a public square in which we are all obliged to echo their views.
The Solution - CWR
Racism is a real problem, but it's part of a much bigger problem.
The Power of the Powerless - Vaclav Havel
Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.
John Henry Newman: The State of Innocence - Newman Reader
Such is the process by which we succeed; we walk to heaven backward; we drive our arrows at a mark, and think him most skilful whose shortcomings are the least.
Assisted Suicide by Zoom - First Things
Once we accept suicide as an acceptable answer to suffering caused by illness or disability, our attitudes toward death become so warped that obtaining suicide for requesting patients quickly becomes the overriding priority.
God or the Mob? - Crisis Magazine
These "protests" are not about racial justice. They never were. They're about a nation that has become intoxicated by self-righteousness. It's a recreational riot.
Why Women Do Not Wish the Suffrage - The Atlantic
"Woman does not wish to turn aside from her higher work, which is itself the end of life, to devote herself to government, which exists only that this higher work may be done. Can she not do both? No!"
The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the Cultural Revolution - New York Times
There was a time, as a memvber of a white supremacist organization, that I rejoiced as I witnessed riots and the breakdown of relations between the black population and the police.
Radical Chic Redux - Crisis Magazine
Welcome to the radical chic redux. Its dangerous enthusiasm can be seen today in the stance of not a few political leaders who have stood by and let our cities burn. Looters are elegized as avatars of a new order of humanity. Their crudities are hailed as prophetic tokens of a brave, new world.
The sewer pipe - David Warren
Those who live in locales where "conservatism" is being made illegal — one thinks of the drive-in university campuses — need more robust defences.
St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |