Month: October 2015

We Need Moral Order, Not Self-satisfying Compassion

One of the main themes of my writing has been a tripartite understanding of the human being, individual and communal, as mind and heart and hands. We think and we feel and we do. The triad of mind and heart and hands is like the Real Presence in being somehow a way of speaking of … [Read more…]

Comatose for Generations, Western Civilization is Being Pushed into the Grave

I had exquisite timing this summer, was well prepared to think in a rational, fact-based way about Europe’s crisis with immigrants as well as with the slower moving crisis in the United States. For the umpteenth time, I was also reminded of one of my high school history teachers: a somewhat eccentric man who was … [Read more…]