A Few Thoughts on Mrs. Coney Barrett and the Supremes
Before we point out some caveats – and there are always caveats –I’d like to make clear I think it overall, in the balance,...
Lockdowns and the Proportion of Fear
Just after Christmas, - at least they waited until after, and we must count all our blessings - Mr. Doug Ford decreed another interminable...
Austen, Python and Regaining Humour
Why are things funny? Humour has eluded philosophers, and even more so scientists - and we are living in an increasingly humourless world, with...
Victoria’s Day, Dominions and Ales
A happy Victoria Day weekend to all our readers! While this is also the memorial of the Mother of the Church, and Our Lady...
Saint Stephen, Hungary’s First and Greatest King
Hungary is one of the few nations standing against the tsunami of insanity washing over the rest of Europe, threatening to deluge civilization as we...
The Sun Setteth on Quebec
It's been too debilitating to write on the situation in Quebec, with churches closed over Christmas, and the bishops raising no protest, with the...
Propaganda, Perspicacity and Peace
Propaganda and censorship have had a bad rap, pummeled in the twentieth century almost into swear words, but in their essence and etymology, there...
Saint Dominic’s Battle for Truth
Saint Dominic (+1221) was one of those souls destined from birth to do great things - as, we may suppose, all saints are in...
Obsessed with Death
In his 1987 novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, physician-turned-author Walker Percy imagines a town whose inhabitants are reverting to simianism, that is, becoming more ape-like,...
Marriage, Divorce and Seeking Happiness
The old joke has it that Milton wrote Paradise Lost after he got married; and when his wife died, he penned the sequel, Paradise...
