…is more a god of war. Read more

He writes two posts on the question of use of nukes in warfare. The first makes clear that, yes, Harry Truman was a war criminal for nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The second attempts to construct the Mother of All Remote Hypothetical Scenarios in order to try to imagine a way in which the use of nukes might conceivably be licit. (Suffice it to say that, if it takes a scenario *this* remote, then we might as well destroy our nuke... Read more

… and insanity is not infrequently sin’s accompanying dark angel, whether it be attached to the sinned against or the sinner.” A really fine essay on Flannery O’Connor and her counter-cultural Catholic views on sin and insanity. I wish I could have known her. What a breath of fresh air she was. Read more

…is one of the jewels of American Catholic culture in our time. Read more

The question that remains to be answered is this: Are you an uber Catholic if you meet one of these conditions or do you have to meet all of them? Or perhaps merely meeting a sufficient threshhold number of conditions will suffice? So much confusion! I’m as baffled as a torture defender trying to decode the impenetrable mysteries of the Army Field Manual’s prescriptions for the humane treatment of prisoners! Read more

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A reader writes: I came across these objections today. They’ve been posed to me before by friends and acquaintances. However, what disconcerts me is that no sources are cited in this email I’m forwarding. So my first quandary is to determine whether or not the claims made here are even accurate. My second quandary is to decide what the claims’ implications are. I can’t shake the feeling that someone’s trying to con people here. Conclusive evidence against a system of... Read more

My wife deserved this award! Read more

Anyhow, the great thing about John C. Wright is that, not only are his blog entries a joy to read, but his commenters are, all by themselves, full of amazing wit as well as cool factoids. Here is the Master, talking about Angels and Demons. Dan Brown: the Thinking Man’s Novelist for people who don’t actually like (or know how) to think. My consolation is that Brown will go to his grave knowing what a fraud he is. Read more

A reader writes: I really enjoyed your presentation of the fallacies of the DaVinci Code movie and your book The DaVinci Code Deception. I was wondering if you will be writing a similar book listings the errors in the Angels and Demons movie as well. I ordered Bill Donohue’s book “Angels & Demons”: More Demonic Than Angelic ” and was wondering if you read it. If so what are your views. Is it as thorough as your book? I know... Read more