Sun Tzu and the Library Wars

Sun Tzu and the Library Wars

In the same newsletter, Drake also advertised the already mentioned lecture on “Israel and the Jewish people.” The county commissioners’ meeting was scheduled for 10:00 AM at the county city building, which was roughly a 30-minute drive from the Juday Creek Country Club, where the talk on Israel was scheduled at noon. Amy Drake’s attendance at both meetings shows that it was possible for someone determined to attend both, but it was certainly not convenient since for most of the people in attendance it meant driving from the Republican stronghold of Granger into downtown South Bend and back again…

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Sex Abuse, Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

Sex Abuse, Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

Pope John Paul II ignored the rise of the homosexual mafia in the Catholic Church. When Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger became his successor, the problem had become too big to ignore. As Pope Benedict, he tried to rein in the homosexual mafia in the Church: Ratzinger’s resignation tarnished the legacy of Pope John Paul II, who valiantly held the line on sexual morality, and emboldened those cardinals who had been longing since 1978 to make a separate peace with the American empire’s promotion of sexual liberation.

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A "Cultural Marxist" Critique of Logos Rising

A "Cultural Marxist" Critique of Logos Rising

This is the most important book of the twenty-first century. E. Michael Jones has thrown down an intellectual gauntlet that cannot honorably be ignored. He has written the definitive defense of logos, and for half a century anti-logocentrism has been the veritable shibboleth of the cultural left. […] Many intellectuals who consider themselves cultural leftists will be tempted simply to ignore this book and hope that it goes away. That would be a very bad mistake. The ideas it expresses will not disperse if ignored; they will gather and spread rapidly.

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Robert Sirico and the Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance

I suppose I have to understand it as the victory of the new electronic media over the old paper magazines like the one you’re currently reading. Because in these very pages, I discussed the Acton Institute’s president, Father Robert Sirico’s history in the space of a long article and nobody jumped. But when I did repeat these findings on my blog in cyberspace it caused two noted Catholic web authors to arrange a pie-eating contest at a restaurant in Kalamazoo, Michigan during June, 2006 at which Catholic acceptance of laissez faire economics and denouncing, while sitting across from the famous cleric who leads the Acton Institute. Judging from the girth of the two noted Catholic bloggers, one a local priest of the Kalamazoo diocese and the other a noted layman from Seattle, I suspect the photo must have been taken with a wide angle lens. Maybe no one reacted because people in eastern Pennsylvania are too subtle in their writings, leaving the readers to draw their own conclusions, when compared to folks out near Pittsburgh who call a spade a spade. In this instance, Randy Engel, who lives near Pittsburgh, asked the Vatican to investigate how a onetime gay activist can be ordained a Catholic priest and then maneuver from religious life to at least two dioceses to become the founder of an institute devoted to the advancement of free-market economic theories explicitly condemned by various popes.

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