One of the advantages socialists have these days is the poverty of our political culture, especially as it pertains to our (lack of) understanding of the rights they are in the process of stripping from us. Those nobly seeking to escape the servitude into which we are rapidly slipping, drawing from a conceptual toolbox withinContinue reading “It Takes a (Certain Kind of) Village”
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Systemic Duplicity
So-called critical theorists like to speak about “systemic” racism, and other social sins. Most people spouting such cant have no idea what it means, but they know what it does: it renders their opponents—unrepentant members of “privileged” social “groups”—guilty without a trial, and therefore subject to various forms of abuse without the right to effectiveContinue reading “Systemic Duplicity”
Countering Social Injustice
In one of the great ironies of history, the term “social justice” was coined (in the 19th century) by a conservative Italian priest, in opposition to attempts to unite his country under a centralized (and therefore despotic) “liberal” regime. Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio, S. J. (1793-1862) laid the foundations for neo-Thomism, and for modern Catholic SocialContinue reading “Countering Social Injustice”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 