Equality

Women in Combat Decision Confirms the Irrationality of the Left

The Obama administration is making a major push to “fully integrate” women into the military, including most ground combat roles. This is the culmination of an effort that began with the rise of the current wave of feminism in the…

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On Unequal and Unjust Demands for Equality

by Anthony Esolen

Aristotle, that common sense fellow, defined justice as giving to each his due. That definition admits of equality in inequality, in obvious ways. The indulgence we allow a child we deny to a grown man; the familiarity with which we…

Women in Combat: “Equality” and Ambition Over Privilege and Duty

by Bernadette O'Brien

Now that the military has finally surrendered in the face of relentless feminist pressure to allow women into combat, one might as well chalk up yet another battle in the culture wars won by the progressive Left. The rather cynically…

The Long War Against the Family (Part III)

by Ryan N. S. Topping

If you’ve been with us for the first two parts here and here, you’ll recall the three waves of attack against the family—(1) the assertion that marriage enslaves, (2) that children are a burden, and (3) that sexual difference is…

Cultural Assimilation: A Threat to Catholic Identity

by James Kalb

For the most part, American Catholics have wanted to be like other people. They arrived in America as immigrants from places where they had a definite (if sometimes lowly) position. They left that for a country where social positions were…

Why the Liberal Welfare State Denies Catholic Freedom

by James Kalb

A couple of months ago I wrote that the Church generally supports and cooperates with political authorities. She interprets their efforts charitably, supports whatever can be justified, and, when some particular measure is undeniably bad, tries to show what would…

Leo XIII: “Taxing the Rich Does Not Help the Poor”

by Anthony Esolen

In Quod Apostolici Muneris (1878), Pope Leo XIII deplores those who “under the motley and all but barbarous terms and titles of Socialists, Communists, and Nihilists, are spread abroad throughout the world,” striving in alliance for “the purpose long resolved…

Faith and Freedom: Why Liberty Requires Christianity

by Joseph Pearce

In an age that seems to believe that Christianity is an obstacle to liberty it will prove provocative to insist, contrary to such belief, that Christian faith is essential to liberty’s very existence. Yet, as counter-intuitive as it may seem…