April 2010

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Ralph Nader recently spoke at a university in the Heart of Dixie. We tried to build some bridges.

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Now that GM stands for “Government Motors” who can love a Chevy? In many ways, seat belt laws paved the way for this transformation. Government straps me in, government keeps me safe.

For our readers in the Oakland area, who have nothing in particular to do next Saturday, I will be speaking at the Manhattan Forum at St. Margaret Mary Church, 1219 Excelsior Ave. The talk will begin at 3pm, with mass…

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by Caleb Stegall on April 2, 2010 · 26 comments

in Short

Now that the admission of blogger taint is clearly in the open, one may as well produce one’s own list of most influential books.

Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman’s Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.

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It is no wonder that we fallen mortals would drive a heavy spike through the opened hands of Christ, bloodily impaling him atop the rocky pate of Golgotha.

Recent addresses by erstwhile abortion advocates demonstrates some basic incoherencies.

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Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.

I love to go in the capricious days of April and hunt violets.

A Tentative Thesis

by Caleb Stegall on April 1, 2010 · 9 comments

in Short

This thesis has the benefit of describing a coherent and understandable affinity between and among my favorite American thinkers, writers, and statesmen.

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It is time to consider what the latest uproar against Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church tells us about the state of our society. It is an ugly truth: the reordering of western society to the one imperative of sexual fulfillment. But, ultimately, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, we shall die not of decadence but of boredom.