Who are these fellows at the Catholic Thing pontificating on unimportant
& irrelevant issues? I don't see any spiritual content in their articles
and no mention of Jesus Christ or black scholars.These fellows must be
some retired academic folks idling away in their sunset years at some
cosy retreats in the US.
Eddie Ray
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Anthony Esolen: The baser passions sell: sex, fear,
anger, hatred. They sell the farm and all the stock before the farmer
has gotten out of bed.
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Build Then, Always
Anthony Esolen: The baser passions sell: sex, fear, anger, hatred.
They sell the farm and all the stock before the farmer has gotten out of
bed.
I’m writing on November 9, one day after the “most significant
election in American history,” as some people were saying, and I don’t
dispute it, except I note that every big election since 1992 has been
the “most significant in American history,” and we have meanwhile slid
and slumped farther into moral confusion and madness.
In the days of Bill Clinton, that fatherless non-entity with
a taste for young women and, somewhere in his muddled soul, for America,
it was a scandal that he took advantage of a young female aide as he
did, though one journalist said, with almost eager physical description,
that she’d have performed oral sex on him just to keep abortion “legal
and safe.” In our days, fourth-graders are given
instructions on the same subject, and the only scandal is that some
people think that’s still a little young for that. As for abortion, I’ve
heard many women insist that men should have no say in it at all. And
thereby they provide, unwittingly, a testimony to their own unfitness to
belong to any civil society where people, as rational and social
creatures and not millions of islands of desire, gather to discuss the
common good and how to secure it.
Yesterday, I said to a small group of conservative and
devout Catholics in Canada that my country, the United States, was a
“banana republic without the bananas,” and that it still would be that
way on November 9, even if a tide washed a few dozen new Republican
congressmen into office.
