The Confusion Begins Early
“But this moral inversion is not something that can be achieved in a day. Before you reverse good and evil, you must flatten good and evil, and before you flatten good and evil, you must flatten greater evil and lesser evil and greater good and lesser good. Moral egalitarianism is a rot that proceeds slowly. …
Posing as Peasants
“One of the saddest features (or funniest, depending) of contemporary food snobbery is the notion that rich people are getting in touch with the rhythms of the earth when they shop at the Whole Foods market. Paying three times as much for a really good apple is a fine thing to do, so long as …
Before Lawless Thrones
“The point here is that the biblical Christian has a natural point of appeal above every human institution—whether than institution be popular elections, that fortress of fraud we call the Congress, the faux-imperial White House, or the black-robed SCOTUS Nazgul who ghoulishly prey on the unborn. One of them singly, or all of them together, …
Free From
“We should pursue the ideal of good cooking and good food the same way—free from guilt, free from snobbery, free from lies about cooties in the food” (Food Catholic, p. 20).
Plenty to Smile About
Betsy DeVos, our new president’s nominee for Secretary of Education, is not a product of our government school system. She attended private school herself. Her children are not products of the government education either. They all attended private school. She is, therefore, according to some of our education bureaucracy mavens, not a suitable choice to …
Which Is Why We Were Warned
“You cannot build your house in a left wing swamp or on a pile of right wing sand and then, when troubles arise, as they surely will, whistle up the foundation you wish you might have had. You either have a foundation when you need it, or you don’t” (Empires of Dirt, pp. 22-23).
False Alternative
“Some defend objective beauty (as they ought to), but they approach aesthetics simplistically, with a stopwatch. Others see how difficult it is, needing to involve much more than a stopwatch, and conclude that it must be impossible, and veer into an incoherent relativism” (Food Catholic, p. 19).
Nasty Canaanite Women
A couple days ago there were “women’s marches” all over the country. It was a very important event I hear tell. Momentous. Charged with meaning. Galvanizing. It was sort of like a Tea Party protest of the left, only without any particular point. There were lots of pink p**sy hats, and so I guess that …
All in the Definitions
