PinnedMember-onlyThe Origins of America’s Violent DeclineThe riotous events on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, January 7, have rightly been identified by Michael Lind in a recent essay as another symbol of America’s slow and painful decline. …Liberalism8 min readLiberalism8 min read
Apr 8, 2021Member-onlyCapitalism and the American FamilyThe expansion of the Child Tax Credit, recently included in a major stimulus package passed through Congress, is justified by the conditions under which families have lived for the last several decades of American capitalism. The assault on the family by late capitalism is hardly new. In the Communist Manifesto…Economics10 min readEconomics10 min read
Feb 15, 2021Member-onlyThe Democratic Party is Now a Right-Wing PartyIf recent developments in our nation’s politics have shown us anything, it is that the classical Right-Left political spectrum is either outdated or much more complicated than we commonly assume it is. There are many ways to account for this age-old division: are you on the side of tradition or…Politics8 min readPolitics8 min read
Published in Arc Digital·Dec 3, 2020Member-onlyThe Idea of IntegralismA vigorously Catholic political philosophy is ascendant in online discourse. Here’s what it holds. — Prior to Vatican II, the Council in which Roman Catholic leadership assembled from 1962 to 1965 to address important theological matters, the Catholic Church had never really been hospitable to the idea of a separation of church and state. Vatican II didn’t actually deviate from that historically held position. But…Ideas11 min readIdeas11 min read
Aug 5, 2020China’s Threat to the Liberal OrderTensions between China and the U.S in the last few years have produced so much newsworthy material that it is vain to attempt to summarize the main events here: trade wars, Hauwei, coronavirus, travel bans, Hong Kong, and now there is talk of Cold War — a whole lot of…Liberalism5 min readLiberalism5 min read
Jul 21, 2020City of WisdomIn the Republic, Plato paints a vivid picture of the ideal city, in which the aim of all politics consists in the cultivation of a common life of wisdom, or the pursuit of wisdom — philosophy. Famously, this is why the ruler of the Plato’s city must himself be a…Politics9 min readPolitics9 min read
Mar 27, 2020Member-onlyProgressive Political Economy in the Age of CoronavirusAfter many days of tense negotiations, the Senate finally passed a massive stimulus bill on Wednesday night, in response to the economic crisis which has been unleashed by COVID-19, or the coronavirus. The pace of the negotations was painfully slow, compared to the quick responses of European countries such as…Coronavirus10 min readCoronavirus10 min read
Mar 6, 2020Member-onlyModels of State-led Economic TransformationThe political discourse of the last several years has increasingly revolved around the question of whether capitalism is really operating in the interests of all. Many on both the Left and the Right are seeking for ways to move beyond capitalism, or at least to fix it so that it…Politics6 min readPolitics6 min read
Feb 27, 2020Member-onlyEver Ancient, Ever NewAs the Thomist philosopher Charles DeKoninck once wrote in an obscure and unpublished lecture On Philosophy of History, history does not progress in a purely linear way, nor in a merely cyclical way, nor even in a merely successive process of disconnected moments and events. Rejecting what he termed the…Philosophy7 min readPhilosophy7 min read
Jan 17, 2020Member-onlyBernie Sanders and the “Blame-Games” of Racism and AbortionIn a recent interview with the editorial board of The New York Times, Senator Bernie Sanders made some salient observations about the causes of institutional racism in the United States. As might be expected, Sanders explains the phenomenon of racism with reference to the socioeconomic crises that currently afflict the…Bernie Sanders6 min readBernie Sanders6 min read
