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The livestreamed Mass was a godsend to a recent convert during the height of the pandemic. But the importance of a parish community and in-person encounters quickly became obvious.
You will not be surprised to learn that my answer is no, but what I’d like to discuss in this week’s column is an argument by an eminent philosopher that we should. Robert Hanna is an authority on Kant (Objectivist readers will already see trouble ahead), and in an article published online this month, “Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument for Gun Abolitionism,” he calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment. He presents his argument for gun abolitionism in two versions, short and long, and oddly the key premises of the short argument are ones that most readers of the … Continue reading ...
A Christian philosopher pushes back on attempts to rid ourselves of this unloved emotion.
By Moti Nissani for VT “Since [1694], the Anglo-Saxons have been following one rule in politics, and this rule is that there are no rules.”—Nikolay Starikov About a month ago, I stumbled upon a well-hidden treasure of unorthodox historical insights: Nikolay Starikov’s Rouble Nationalization: The Way to Russia’s Freedom (St. Petersburg, Piter, 2012). The book provides a readable introduction to world history (1694-present) and to the fractional reserve banking scam. [1] A few hard copies are available in the USA branch of Amazon (shipped from Germany for about $24). Amazon’s ...
If your opponent is not a state, but a people whose land you have systematically appropriated and effectively forced into a ghetto, you can get away with almost anything.