“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.” — John Adams Take this ten-question quiz to find out what you believe about the right of revolution…enjoy the process of self-identification! 1) Just prior to the American Revolution, Tom Paine said, “If there must be trouble, let it be [...]
It is the whole world in “solidarity” against one odious, bilious, broken down, old President Obama supporter named Donald Sterling. And now he is banned for life. The world’s “solidarity” is animated by a painstakingly obvious truism, entails absolutely no risk, and really comprises no actual battle. It is in short, the only battle the [...]
Last week, Dr. Bradley J. Birzer wrote an excellent sort of knowing or unknowing response to the ambitious claims of my recent article here on The Imaginative Conservative which announced that America’s Founding was exclusively Catholic. (I go unnamed.) Dr. Birzer’s article articulates that theories like mine “stretch intellectual reality too much.” Normalcy bias is justified, [...]
The better technology gets, so also we develop a more efficient method of telecommunication. Always near at hand are the cellular devices like “smart phones,” laptops, and “tablets,” as the intellectually lopsided homunculi known as “tech engineers” have hilariously christened those weird mini-computers. All this cellular hardware is charged up, on hand, and ready to [...]
Each electoral cycle, nearly six out of every ten American Catholics cast the ghastly vote of the libertine. As such, one can only assume that the ideas and “lifestyles” emblazoned by these six out of ten votes follow faithfully (tongue firmly lodged in cheek!) upon such libertinism. Regarding the shameful demographic ordeal, the orthodox American [...]
“Those who claim to oppose The Enemy would do well not to hinder us.”—Frodo Baggins, to Captain Faramir of the Minas Tirith Guard “It would be improper to require the consent of the National Legislature [for an amendment], because they may abuse their power, andrefuse their consent on that very account.”—George Mason, summer 1787, Philadelphia [...]
What other movie finds itself capable of conjuring to mind the Aristotelian maxim that “goodness is one, evil is manifold”? As the reader can see clearly below, not all of my top twenty-five are “great” films. This was no cardinal ordering of the best movies ever. Many are simply relentlessly entertaining movies and nothing more. [...]
Catholic Answers’ indefatigable Jimmy Akin recently defended Pope Francis against charges of Marxism leveled by the likes of the irrepressible Rush Limbaugh. In a word, Pope Francis is not a Marxist: on that score, Akin is flat right and Limbaugh flat wrong. The Pope concerns himself about Catholic social teaching and nothing more. Fair enough. However, [...]
“Never to be roused is to forget what honor demands.”–Cicero As of this moment, the American Left no longer carries sole imprimatur to publish recursive screeds dispelling American exceptionalism. The American Right is hereby officially in on the act (from an opposing angle, naturally) with a single noteworthy reservation: the sui generis manner of our [...]
The cultural phenomenon is undeniable: vampire and zombie phantasmagoria is in its heyday, especially among Gen-Xers and younger. The dis-ensouled human form, both the high (the vampire) and the low (the zombie), has swept the nation in movies, TV shows, books, graphic novels, and even spoofs. The vampire has become the golden boy for the [...]