These days, it seems, my friends fall into two groups: The Red Hots and the Blue Birds. The Red Hots are the angry sort. They stand, like fly fishermen, knee-deep in the torrent of news stories washing over us, angling for the latest catch to feed their appetite for outrage. They don’t just get . . . . Continue Reading »
Last summer saw the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, a motu proprio that limited the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. In December, the Vatican issued clarifications of those limits. I’m not a canon lawyer, so I won’t go into the details. It’s sufficient to say . . . . Continue Reading »
Aaron Kheriaty joins the podcast to discuss his article, “The Other Pandemic: The Lockdown Mental Health Crisis,” and the evolution of the COVID pandemic. Continue Reading »
For the sake of constitutional order and legitimacy, government claims for extraordinary powers must cease. Continue Reading »
New York Times columnist Charles Blow fulminated recently that those who fail to cleave to late-model progressivism aim at “the subjugation of all who challenge the white racist patriarchy.” No surprise there. Blow has made a career out of outrage. Yet a prominent analogy in his column, . . . . Continue Reading »
Rather than doubling down on the politics of safety, we need a politics of home that points toward the permanent things. Continue Reading »
Vaccine passport mandates violate the unity of the body of Christ; as such, they are a most egregious denial of the heart of the gospel. Continue Reading »
On a single weekend in June 2021, seven people died of drug overdoses in Rochester, New York. On that Saturday morning, three adults were found dead on a front porch on a quiet, residential street. Inside the house were six orphaned children. Lab tests showed that the lethal agent was heroin laced . . . . Continue Reading »
Nothing stimulates the emergence of a guru like a crisis, especially one to which the correct response is far from clear. People want simple, reassuring answers. They eagerly suspend their critical faculties; their wishes are father to their beliefs. A good guru can transform the proudest skeptic . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Navarro joins the podcast to discuss his new book, In Trump Time: My Journal of America's Plague Year. Continue Reading »
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