I do admit: Perhaps a simple “no” would have sufficed. Billy Madison Wrong GIFfrom Billy Madison GIFs But, I’m just not a “simple no” kind of guy. The following is my response to Loyola-Chicago’s request that I participate in some mentorship program: I suspect this program will indeed be helpful to a number of students.…
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With 9/11 on the minds of Americans again, it is interesting to see how sentiment regarding it has moved from misplaced rage and nationalistic xenophobia to recognition of something larger lost than even those who died that day. The great Dave Smith was partially right: more from A Twisted History of the United States, 1450-1945:…
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On news that the FBI has not only been spying on and infiltrating Catholic parishes, but lying about it: When I studied to be a priest/religious as a Dominican, we were assigned to read through the Constitutions of the Order of Preachers; many of the notions and clauses date back all the way to the…
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Looks as though the French, the Spanish, and the Italians–for all of the reports of Catholicism dying in Europe–are ahead of the game here. There’s a historical reason for that. Below is my exchange today with the great Anthony Stine.
It was with considerable doubt that I read in Tom Woods’s The Church and the Market that he dedicated and targeted the work to traditional Catholics who had, from his point of view, erred in embracing redistributionist ideals that, if taken to their logical conclusion, amounted to outright socialism. I had not encountered such people.…
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My notes follow (along with an interview from RUN YOUR MOUTH) from an epic book and epic read–on just how much the history establishment has gotten wrong, or more so, what it has purposefully done to communicate and indoctrinate in the service of modern regimes, a limited at best–apocryphal at worst–understanding of World War II.…
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This chapter of deflection theater has to be the most pathetic yet. Congress appears to be in bipartisan support of railing against TikTok, condemning it as the source of all ills. Ban it, the sops say. It is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party! The company spies on Americans. It manipulates the appetites of…
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