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  • The Pope’s Favorite Straw Man: ‘Individualism’

    The Pope’s Favorite Straw Man: ‘Individualism’0

    Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has repeatedly attacked what he now calls the “liberal-individualist” or “neoliberal” vision of the world. With last week’s statement to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Francis has renewed the attack, but in the process has exhibited a number of political biases and demonstrably false assumptions.  This line of attack

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  • The Pope Loves Dialogue—Except on Climate Change

    The Pope Loves Dialogue—Except on Climate Change0

    “When leaders in various fields ask me for advice, my response is always the same: dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.” ~ Pope Francis, in Brazil in 2013 The Pope of Dialogue has thus far slammed the bronze doors of St. Peter’s on any dialogue on the issue of global warming. (Many Catholics argue that everything else is up

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  • The Pope Francis Media Circus is a Two-Edged Sword

    The Pope Francis Media Circus is a Two-Edged Sword0

    • September 23, 2015

    The excitement surrounding Pope Francis’ visit to America is the closest Catholics get to Beatlemania. Hundreds of thousands are hoping to catch a glimpse of the pope when he is in D.C., New York, and Philadelphia this week. My Facebook feed has seen more than one post from those with golden tickets to see the

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  • The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction

    The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction6

    Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Stephen King, and I came to wonder about the horror writer’s political ideas. Several right-leaning essayists have already noticed a seeming disconnect between King’s politics and the spirit of his fiction. Tim Cavanaugh labels King a “lefty,” yet notes that his stories are full of “hard-headed pragmatism and

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  • The Politicization of Everything

    The Politicization of Everything0

    What do Anheuser-Busch InBev, Grubhub, New Balance, Kellogg’s, and the HGTV show Fixer Upper have in common? On the surface, not a whole lot—except that, over the past several weeks, each one has been the subject of a political controversy. On October 28th, Adweek reported that Anheuser-Busch InBev was ending its parodic “Bud Light Party” commercials “a little earlier than

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  • The Politicization of COVID-19 Treatments

    The Politicization of COVID-19 Treatments0

    The word has leaked out on a potential cheap treatment for COVID-19, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Worried Medicaid patients in an urban emergency room are reportedly asking doctors for “dat Klorokine pill.” Meanwhile, highly educated persons are quoting media reports that HCQ is very dangerous because it can trigger fatal heart rhythms. Governors and

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