Turnabout thoughts in and out of season

I look at the connections among modern materialism, the Church of the Peripheries, and globalism at Crisis Magazine.

What does social constructivism mean for the Church? I discuss the question at Catholic World Report.

What does nationalism mean today? I discuss the question at Crisis Magazine.

How modern ways of thinking mean governments botch the most obvious points: my new piece at Catholic World Report.

How do we escape technocracy, at least in concept? I continue the discussion at Catholic World Report.

I discuss nationalism, globalism, and Catholicism at Crisis Magazine.

There’s a followup on last month’s piece on the divinization of Francis at Crisis Magazine.

I discuss the divinization of Francis at Crisis Magazine.

What is progressivism, why is it so, and what can be done about it? I discuss such questions at Catholic World Report.

I discuss the secular and Catholic versions of human dignity at Crisis Magazine.

Why have liberals become so bigoted? I discuss the question at Catholic World Report.

I discuss whether the Church should keep on running after the world at Crisis Magazine.

I discuss the socialist temptation among Catholics at Crisis Magazine.

I comment on the Church, the signs of the times, and eternity in Crisis Magazine.

My review of Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen is online at Catholic World Report.

In CWR I present a Marxist account of progressivism as an exploitive ruling class ideology.

What does secular universalism mean for the Church? I discuss the issue in Crisis Magazine.

I continue the discussion with comments on how Catholicism can restore sanity to today’s thought.

I puzzle over what Catholics should do about modernity at Catholic World Report.

My review of The Orange Trees of Marrakesh, a book on Ibn Khaldun and the science of man.