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Women, The Cosmos, and Cosmetics
Any writer or speaker who offers his opinions on a topic does so with the implicit promise that he is…
Author John Médaille
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Snippets From an Exhortation: The Anti-Modernism of Pope Francis
The narrative that has been played out since the election of Jorge Bergoglio is one of a Pope ready to…
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Intelligible Design and Darwin’s Black Box
The one thing that modern science should be able to do is to explain to us how things happen. The…
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Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money
I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer…
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Is Conservatism Incoherent? (Or, Pogo Was Right)
The question posed in the title might itself be somewhat problematic, since “conservatism” is not one thing, but a rich…
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There Is No Such Thing as a Bank Loan
“Dexia” is not a word familiar to most Americans, and if told that it is a French bank in need…
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Mother AND Teacher: The Church, Financial Reform, and Realism
It has occurred to me that Europe doesn’t give a damn if Greece goes down. The EU concern is not…
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Wendell Berry and the Great Economy
I confess that until now I have never read anything by Wendell Berry. In fact, I deliberately avoided reading anything…
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Taxes: Fair or Foul?
Somewhere in the Analects of Confucius, the Master says that the first step in solving a problem is to call…
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Playing Poker With Obama
The country has just passed through a long debate to reach a doubtful end. Indeed, it is not really an…