Unexpected

Reality is positive

Don't start from the roof

A thoughtful reflection on the necessary context for a culture of life.

Borrowing paradise

The incredible situation of public debt in all Western countries cannot be explained only in terms of irresponsible politicians and murky accounting. Such radical denial of reality has also cultural roots: the myth of the affluent society based on scientific progress and on technocratic politics that has been the absolutely dominant narrative in the West at least since the mid 1950's.

Moving on

A good post-election interview at Il Sussidiario.

A good rebellion

Some signs of life on the Italian left.

Back to basics

A classic David Brooks column. Read also the first comment as a perfect example the effects of a contemporary college education: Brooks suggests that people would be better off doing XYZ, the lady from Boston replies vehemently that nobody can force her to do XYZ! Another great mind lost to agriculture.

The clerisy

The people who won the election.

Eastern Nazism

On Christian martyrs in Asia during World War II.

An ecology of man?

This article makes a sensible point: that there is no such thing as an optimal or stable ecological equilibrium.

Death through consent

As usual Holland is at the forefront of "progress." But some people are justly diffident that these are true "choices."

Concord

A nice essay by Dominic Aquila.