John Waters

We should never seek to make definitive decisions about the limits of the possible until we remind ourselves again of what it is like to be an open-mouthed child before the majesty of reality.  Continue Reading »

The idiotic, self-devouring cultural dialectic of Ireland since independence has ensured that its own damaged iconographies have blocked access to certain elements of the past, and therefore stymied present artists.  Continue Reading »

If a society loses its intuition of the absolute necessity for certain principles and fundamental rights, it will lose the sense and memory of how its own equilibrium has been arrived at, and thereafter descend into chaos. Continue Reading »

Musk is not any kind of conservative, and so the tentative cheers that have greeted his apparent routing of the Twitter board might more wisely have been postponed until we see what the new Twitter may look and sound like.
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The machine will allegedly elevate humans according to values different from those of nature—a Superman. Where have we heard that before? Continue Reading »

Might ABBA, perhaps innocently, be paving the way for a new, dark, digital world? Continue Reading »

The overall approach of the Irish authorities in their handling of lockdown measures has been both confusing and strategic. Continue Reading »

People seem no longer to understand that freedom is not an ordinary thing; it does not occur spontaneously.  Continue Reading »

Cardinal Robert Sarah’s views on the question of migration do not make him an opponent of Pope Francis.  Continue Reading »

Just a few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is already clear that many actors are prepared to countenance the exclusion of the old and the very ill from the protection of the human family. Continue Reading »