The Social Pathologist

The ideal vs the real. On a related note: On finance, the Vatican can still do better .

Rod Dreher--who I don't agree with very much--put up an interesting article which I felt deserved far more comment in this corner of...

I thought I would just follow up with a few more thoughts on the subject of Neoplatonism in the Church. I can't say that I'm a sch...

  The Body was no longer what it was when Plato and Porphyry and the old mystics had left it for dead. It had hung upon a gibbet. It had...

He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth. ( Matthew 12:30) As I've said before, any res...

What unites the Left, the "Alt- Right" and Neoconservatism is a contempt of Christianity.  For the Left,  Christianity,...

In case anyone is interested there is an interesting lecture given by George Hawley: Is the Alt-Right Collapsing .  Hawley's academic sp...

Firstly, I'd like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It's been a year of mixed blessings and I must ...

That peril is that the human intellect is free to destroy itself. Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next gene...

Strauss's attempt to muscle out Christianity as a formative principle of Western Civilisation led him to posit an alternative.  For ...

Equally disturbing to the conservative mind is Strauss's inattention to the pivotal role of Christianity in shaping the Anglo-American ...

Strauss and the Straussians have succeeded in doing the opposite of German historian Ernst Nolte and, before him, Marxists credited the fas...

Posting's been light because of a variety of reasons, particularly Writer's Block. Still I saw a comment today over at Vox's b...

When Paul Gottfried coined the term Alt-Right, he saw it as an alternative form of Conservatism that would eventually replace the mainstre...

Donald Trump's speech in Warsaw seems to have impressed a lot of people.  I thought it a good, though not exceptional speech. Still ...