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First Things: The Empire of Desire
One really can’t say enough good things about Andrew Schwartz’s excellent post regarding the existentialist mindset. R.R. Reno over at First Things echoes those comments this morning: Yet, underneath...
View Article“Farming in Fear” set to debut July 11th
For all those who followed Martha Boneta’s struggles, there’s a documentary debuting on July 11th at the Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas that retells her story for a wider audience. Here is the...
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The Solution of Teleology
Few people have heard of William Issac Thomas, a native Virginian who is the innovator of the long standing and well remembered Thomas Theorem: “If men define situations as real, they are real in...
View ArticleForbes: The American Spirit
Guest post by Congressman Randy Forbes Growing up, I always loved the Fourth of July. At the time I couldn’t quite name it, but something about that day always seemed hopeful and a bit magical. Our...
View ArticleReplace Jefferson Davis? Sure. With Frederick Douglass.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is trolling. Its bait: the Confederate statues along Monument Avenue. Columnist Michael Paul William has gone fishing twice, with columns that have generated more heat than...
View ArticleIn Praise of Contrarians?
Of course, you deserve to be reading some items from the New York Times, right? This gem comes from a review of Max Beerbohm, a man I have rarely encountered, but just might have to pick up his...
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5 Outrageous Quotes from Senior Planned Parenthood Doc in the Unedited CMP...
On Tuesday, a video was released that shocked the the nation. As of this moment, it has been viewed about 2.3 million times. Both people who would identify as “pro-choice” and “pro-life” have been...
View ArticleThe Founders and Atticus Finch
Like most people who have attended school in the past 40 years, I read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. Like most people who read To Kill a Mockingbird, I loved it. The vivid portrayal of a small...
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On Agrarianism Contra Populism
So a fellow traveler on Facebook asks the question: How do you define populist? I have noticed you using the term in Facebook and blog posts. I have also heard media personalities use the term but have...
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Kim Davis Is No St. Thomas More…
St. Thomas More, when his conscience was challenged by the duties of his office, did the right thing. He resigned. Now I’ve seen Wolf Hall and think that the whole effort to demonize More and lionize...
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Chaput at the Synod: On Diversity and Inclusion
So I choose more often than not to refrain from writing about my more Catholic moments here on Bearing Drift, mostly because (1) this is a political new media resource, (2) the bandwidth here just...
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The Catholic Academy And Its Discontents
David Brooks has to be one of the most interesting of writers to watch evolve in the pages of The New York Times. Typically identified on the political left by conservatives, and at times the...
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Narcissism Versus Free Speech
First Things had a great intro piece in the November issue where Reno argues that the great battle is no longer a Hayekian fight between individualism and conservatism, but rather between excessive...
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What Mizzou should learn from ODU
Over the past week we’ve watched the spectacle at the University of Missouri of movement leftist student – and faculty – activists engaging in coercive and borderline violent tactics taken straight out...
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Attainting American History
There is an interesting phenomenon that is gaining prominence in the 21st Century, in which our American history repeatedly receives a social bill of attainder. We’ve all heard the term — the memory...
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