Some Laws
UPDATE January 2024: This post has been republished and expanded at my Substack. 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, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
How Anyone Could Do Such a Thing
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
The Bishop’s Lament: Apb. Chaput’s New Book
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
Should I Watch: Utopia?
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: The Man in the High Castle?
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
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I Supported Affirmative Consent Before It Was Cool (and Then I Gave Up On It)
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
Re: Your Ire Is Misdirected
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
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Book Review – Liberty: The God That Failed
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
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Tagged book review, department of scholarly screeds, liberty, Ron Paul
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On First Looking Into Heinemann’s Eunuchs
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
Posted in Culture, Mere Opinion
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IV, V, II, III, VI
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
Posted in Culture, Declarations
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