Reader Glenn Cooper is trying to get ahold of you. He wants to network with you about my trip to DC/VA/MD in June. Thanks to the other folks who have contacted me as well. I will be in touch with everybody, well, probably when I get back from Savannah, and we will make it all work! Read more

is that Science (the capital letter is essential) studies cold hard fact while religion is all about airy fairy speculation about things nobody has ever seen. I always think of these dogmatic pronouncement when I run across things the International Journal of Astrobiology. Astrobiology. For those of you who don’t know: that’s a science that has less actual data to work with than the Medical Bureau at Lourdes. In fact, it has no actual data whatever. But that doesn’t stop... Read more

the future of the Legionaries and the SSPX. He has some good ideas, some bad ideas (combine the Legionaries and the Jesuits, which would result in a detonation that would lay waste our solar system), and one idea that wins points for creativity, if not realism (combine the Legionaries and the SSPX, so that the former can acquire some pre-conciliar aesthetics and the latter can learn a little obedience). Read more

In a relativist culture, without the clear coda, “in order to understand better how to prevent people from adopting extremist ideas and/or defeat, convert or destroy those who have” this sort of exericse is, well, suicide, innit? All you do is educate couch potatos to imagine they are being broad-minded and accepting when in fact they are ceding the field to murderous thugs and lunatics. Read more

This is where we are shooting Manalive. It will stand in for Beacon House. Read more

In a culture drunk on false hope, Christians have to be killjoys and remind people that there will be a reckoning and there is no hope–none–in this world apart from Christ. When the reckoning comes and people start to get frightened, Christians have to remind people that they do not have the luxury of giving up and wallowing in self-pity and despair, because there is still hope, because Christ isn’t going anywhere. So Fr. Schall’s words are a tonic as... Read more

A friend sends this along: In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could,... Read more

The American Thinker asks, “Can a free people willingly choose servitude?” The prophet Chesterton replies that it is usually a free people who choose tyranny, something we see from the Roman Republic to Weimar. Against Wells’ notion that primitive man was a tyrant who ruled by force and fear and that democracy is a late development in our onward and upward march of Progress, he writes in The Everlasting Man: It may be that in certain savage tribes the chief... Read more

Some religious guy in flyover state clings pathetically to hopelessly out-of-date Jesus and fails to get on board with the latest in American Secular Messianism. Totally old school. Of course, the claim that Obama’s adulators are behaving in absurdly secular messianic ways is completely exaggerated and utterly without foundation. It’s like with those silly Catholics fighting FOCA merely because Obama declared it his number one priority. Nothing to look at here. Everybody just settle down and pledge to be a... Read more

You can order the whole trilogy here either all at once or (if you mysteriously like to pay more) one volume at a time. (Cost includes shipping and billing). It should be ready in about a month. If it comes out before I get back I will ship copies as soon as I return (signed, of course!). If it comes out later… well, we’ll see it when it gets here! Yippee! It’s almost here! Oh! Here’s the description of the... Read more