Dublin’s Dilemma

by John Duggan

As a result of Catholicism's demise, are the Irish no longer governed by a firm, inherited sense of right and wrong? If the answer is “yes,” then Ireland cannot claim that it wasn’t warned. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2023

Christianity Is Not Merely Another Identity

by Ismail Royer

Truth does not seek to “feel included” with falsehood. It does not seek to be “treated with respect,” as falsehood is respected. Continue Reading »

30 May 2022

Our Divided House

by Gerard V. Bradley

Speaking to a Baltimore audience in 1864, Abraham Lincoln made an observation that remains ­uncomfortably true today. “The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty,” he said, “and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2021

The Job of Ultimate Observer

by John Wilson

The world is out there, and it's our job to go out and discover it. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2018

Justin Trudeau and the Dictatorship of Relativism

by George Weigel

The Trudeau government illustrates perfectly the relativist campaign against religious people and associations of goodwill. Continue Reading »

23 May 2018

Suffering and Silence

by J. D. Flynn

Some Canadian bishops are failing the same test that caused Sebastian Rodrigues to stumble in Silence. Continue Reading »

20 Dec 2016

Rise of the “Unholy Left”

by Michael P. Murphy

If Michael Walsh’s account of the rise of the “Unholy Left” in The Devil’s Pleasure Palaceis to be believed, the playbook for the contemporary fragmentation of American values was drawn up in Frankfurt by neo-Marxian philosophers in the years between the two World Wars.
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14 Dec 2015

The (Very) Last Word

by Gilbert Meilaender

The Last Word.By Thomas Nagel.Oxford University Press.  147 pp. $19.95. How refreshing and intellectually stimulating it is to read a philosopher––and one as smart as Thomas Nagel––say a favorable word on behalf of Descartes. In a time when “Cartesian” has almost become a pejorative . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1999