2020 election

Lepanto Redux or The Idolatry of Devout Ideas?

Is the upcoming presidential election our Lepanto moment? Is it a watershed event as consequential to civilization as the Battle of Lepanto? It certainly looks that way. Unhappily, Christian civilization is less capable today of defeating the enemy than it was on October 7, 1571. Collective discernment dissolves in a daily acid bath of media exertions to synthesize a viable candidate from a calculating, Marxoid cipher who parlayed sexual favor to the 41st mayor of San Francisco into a lucrative public service job. Continue Reading
A Demon In The Demos

The bourgeoisie produces its own grave-diggers. The Communist Manifesto
  Can a culture celebrate those who want to destroy it and still stand? We are about to find out in this fateful November. Until recently, I thought the word “demonic” no more than a figure of speech. It carried a chill dislodged from religious myth and absorbed into literary aesthetics. As an accessory to prose, I liked the word. Not any more. Not on the verge of an election poised over an abyss for which this nation has no precedent. Continue Reading