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Shareholding is an evil, even if it makes us rich.
Children contradict all the major anthropological assumptions of liberalism.
D.C. Schindler unpacks the theological meaning of Christianity’s chief political heresy.
We are calling not for less politics, but for more politics.
Postliberals worthy of the name should hope for the end of earthbound politics; of the idolatrous parody of divine sovereignty.
Abortion is an act that decisively realizes liberalism within the family.
For all the talk of “anti-discrimination,” current policies discriminate unjustly against actual human beings in favor of a disembodied, counterfactual “ideal.”
We are completely off whatever rockers we were trusted to sit on—and our condemnation of the stock market is entirely correct.
Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes have advocated that investing in a 401(k) or the stock market is generally immoral. I think that their view is incorrect.
Social media is a machine for the universalization of Posting, such that all human communication becomes a Post in its exterior form, regardless of the interior intention of the poster.
The real reformers, the ones who are most agitated about a problem, often gain their energy from the moral contradiction of being utterly implicated in the very sins they condemn.
The trouble with driving, according to Crawford, is that there isn’t enough of it.
Artificial intelligence is not a new frontier for man, but one of the oldest.
The failure of capitalism to live up to any of its goals can be traced to shareholding, the level of abstraction it represents, and the shift in economic purpose it demands.
Love and truth are neither expected nor (typically) desired from bureaucrats or chatbots.
The trouble with a technological age is that people are increasingly shapeless.
Recently a YouTuber—one of us whose “You” is intimately involved with a “Tube”—meandered down to God’s Own Steubenville, Ohio.
We will either become Catholic or remain counterproductive.
The transhumanist attempts, through innovative technology, to postpone or overcome biological fragility and curate a kind of eternal body.
Plastic “makes” a thing present to all and yet seals it within itself, which is of course, the liberal description of the self.
The point of almsgiving is not to obtain any result from man, but a reward from God. Almsgiving is one of the least utilitarian things a person can do; a dive into the abyss of uselessness.
The humanists are inhuman, but let us not be taken for fools: their “philosophy” is more materially determined by the stock market than spiritually determined by any insight into the human condition.
I am excited to have more children, largely because I have a lot to do, and after a certain increase in their muscle mass and spiritual faculty, a child can help me to do it.
The legal possibility of abortion trains women and men to swat away the female experience of being in media res, already committed, already loving, already nourishing whether she would or no, and to take on an imitation of prototypically male anxieties: is it really mine? Do I really want it? The very possibility that, after all, I may kill it, may “terminate,” may become not-mother, negates the female into a perverse image of the male—who looks upon a pregnancy from the outside.
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For all the talk of “anti-discrimination,” current policies discriminate unjustly against actual human beings in favor of a disembodied, counterfactual “ideal.”