Some Laws
I run into various laws on the Internet. Sometimes I have a hard time finding them again later. In this post, I will collect some of them, chiefly for my own reference but also because several of them are funny. … Continue reading
I run into various laws on the Internet. Sometimes I have a hard time finding them again later. In this post, I will collect some of them, chiefly for my own reference but also because several of them are funny. … Continue reading
A lotta people think that there are certain crimes that are really hard to commit. Even if you manage to commit one of these extra-terrible crimes, they are (supposedly) even harder to live with. Guilt, people think, eventually consumes the … Continue reading
My review of Archbishop Charles Chaput’s new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Faith in a Post-Christian World, is up at The Federalist today. Here is the link, and here is an excerpt: Chaput repeatedly refers to the Supreme Court’s lawless … Continue reading
Type of Show: In the 21st Century, there are two kinds of shows: dark (think Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies) and bright (think Guardians of the Galaxy). Some straddle the middle, or vacillate between the two. Utopia is unlike all of them: its plot … Continue reading
Should I Watch? is a new feature in which James will write brief, to-the-point reviews of television shows, because he watches quite a few. Like most features on De Civitate, James will probably not have time for it over the long haul and … Continue reading
A couple years ago, I was trying to figure out how best to deal with rape cases. Rape is simultaneously one of the worst crimes that can be perpetrated against an individual and one of the hardest to punish or … Continue reading
Hi, Gerv, I’m sure you’re inundated, and you sure as heck don’t know me, so there’s no need to respond to this. But I really appreciated your post the other day, and wanted to share my reaction with you. Perhaps it … Continue reading
Liberty: The God That Failed is an imposing tome, clocking in at over 600 pages of small-print, heavily footnoted text. Christopher Ferrara had a great deal to say, and spared no effort in saying it – although he promises to … Continue reading
I’m reading Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, by Uta Ranke-Heinemann, a prominent self-excommunicated German Catholic theologian. It was highly recommended to me as a final damning proof of the Catholic Church’s misogyny and loathing of sex, and I have … Continue reading
The masthead up thar says this blog is about “civilization and public life.” Problem is, to date, the blog has been pretty much just “religion and public life,” which makes us a cheesy one-man knock-off of the inestimable First Things. … Continue reading