Time to ask “But what about the children?”

Dec 14, 2023 by

by Nina Power, The Critic: Not talking about the facts is counterproductive. Since the sexual revolution, the West has engaged in a project of limit-destruction in the name of the sanctity of desire. Boundaries are there to be...

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Authority Is Good for You

Dec 13, 2023 by

Book Review by Erin Shaw, TGC. Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing, by Jonathan Leeman. I must begin with a confession: I’m guilty. I’m a misuser of authority....

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Why the Feminist and Sexual Revolutions Failed

Dec 7, 2023 by

By Phillip Jensen, TGC. Book Reviews: ‘The Case Against the Sexual Revolution’ and ‘Feminism Against Progress’ “Largely, both books have grown out of the authors’ life experiences of motherhood. The birth of their firstborn children...

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Studying irreligion in Ireland

Nov 21, 2023 by

By Tim O’Sullivan, Mercator. Unholy Catholic Ireland. Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality and Irish Irreligion By Hugh Turpin. Stanford University Press. 2022. 325 pages. One has to brace oneself before plunging into yet another...

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Critical Race Theory for the Rest of Us

Nov 10, 2023 by

By John F Doherty, Public Discourse. In his book All One in Christ, Edward Feser provides a succinct but comprehensive treatment of Critical Race Theory, its logical flaws and lack of basis in social science, and the Catholic Church’s...

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There IS an alternative to our world of despair

Oct 14, 2023 by

by Francis Phillips, TCW: Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood and Nation by Danny Kruger (Forum, £20) IT IS rare to encounter a politician who has reflected deeply on what ‘politics’ means and has a coherent, persuasive...

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