We are used to thinking about COVID-19 as a health disaster. However, it is also an economic one. COVID suffocates the body by preventing air from entering the lungs. In a COVID economy, we have flooded the system with money and suffocated the nation with debt. The decrees of the Federal Reserve work like a … Read more
If shoppers have an unlimited opportunity to shoplift, the outcome is not difficult to predict. The shoplifters will prosper, and the shops will close. Elementary students could figure out the simple negative mathematical calculations needed to reach such a conclusion. Unfortunately, elementary students do not govern California. Seven years ago, social justice warriors put together … Read more
We are asking our police officers to do the impossible. In the present atmosphere of great decadence, they cannot keep order. We have saddled them with the task of enforcing the law while constantly undermining it through our culture. Until we address this contradiction, the police’s task will be an exercise in futility. The Wrong … Read more
Language is a powerful weapon in the hands of the media. Words and expressions convey ideas that reflect a culture, morality and worldview. Liberal media have long used their position of power to change language and impose their distorted worldview upon America. As part of its orientation to writers, the Associated Press (AP) regularly tweets … Read more
Normally Catholic theologians would be studying theology, but one group thinks that freeing an elephant from the zoo is a moral imperative.1 Free the Elephant! A group of five Catholic theologians made common cause with the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) over the “solitary confinement” of a 50-year-old Asian elephant named Happy who resides at the … Read more
If future American historians look for a perfect symbol of the academic madness of the present times, they will point to The 1619 Project. It springs from an educational establishment that has abandoned truth and objectivity. Mainstream media and its culture have embraced the project’s art of propaganda. Some liberal state departments of education, local … Read more
In our polarized nation, no other word causes so much confusion as freedom. Everyone claims to fight for freedom. Each side in the political debate claims the other is an enemy of freedom. And yet, it seems we have less and less freedom. We have lost the meaning of the word. When no one knows … Read more
In this age of secularism, when political life is separate from religious life, it is commendable that a United States President presents himself as a practicing Catholic and publicly participates in the Church’s sacraments. However, President Biden’s Catholicism is sui generis. He does not follow Catholic doctrine and morals concerning procured abortion and homosexual sin. … Read more
Ryszard Legutko knows about freedom. He experienced a lack of freedom when his native Poland was under communism, and the State controlled everything. He felt the exhilaration of liberation when the captive nation was freed in 1989. And now he senses the suffocating climate of freedom’s suppression by ideologues that proclaim freedom yet deliver … Read more
When the economy goes down, monetary theories start circulating. Since most people dislike austerity, today’s most popular theory is spending the nation out of its crisis. The popularity makes sense in a world where no one wants to suffer toward a solution. Magic solutions are much preferred, as all pain is thus averted. Throw another … Read more
