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Karens, Quislings, Vandals, Lies

Take Karen Attiah, for example. (Yes, her name is actually “Karen”.) Karen Attiah is an editor with the Washington Post (for those who aren’t familiar, it’s like the comics section of Pravda). This here Karen Attiah recently took to Twitter to do battle with the SUV Karens of the world by posting this rather troubling potshot: “White women are lucky that we are just calling them ‘Karen’s.’ And not calling for revenge.”

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Hapless Shrugged

In Ayn Rand’s classic 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, the captains of industry decide to absent themselves from society to prove their importance to the economic well-being of the world. While Rand’s target was greedy and inefficient government, the message is clear. Without the elites, Ayn thought, society grinds to a halt.

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MAJOR VICTORY FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: The Merits of the Case

Christopher Ferrara With the decision in Soos v. Cuomo, federal district Judge Gary L. Sharpe has removed religious gatherings from the virtual ghetto in which Governor Cuomo, his Attorney General and New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio had placed them under Cuomo’s crazy-quilt scheme of executive orders by which he is enforcing his increasingly indefensible, and in many applications patently ridiculous, COVID-19 lockdown.

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Black Lives, White Supremacy, and Red Blood

The category error of “white” is more than just occasionally annoying. It is downright pernicious. It is an artificial assaying of people into census-sized herds, but the concept of race itself is—does this really need saying?—poisoned with anti-human devilry. Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism presents a very good outline of how nation-states rose up by drawing lines between people based on made-up criteria and then absolutizing those arbitrary lines as frontiers between citizens and sub-humans. Without prompting from me, any reader can easily rehearse for him- or herself what all this came to in the twentieth century and now into the twenty-first.

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55 YEARS LATER: Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Appraisal of Vatican II

Bishop Schneider’s reflections, based in great part on his book-length interview Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age, expand on certain points of its discussion of Vatican II, in light of recent debate. Originally published by Angelico Press in October 2019, Christus Vincit is set to be released this week in German and Portuguese.

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SHEPHERDS OBEYING WOLVES: Open Letter to the Bishops of Scotland

Hence today there are no heresies to be fought, no immoralities to be condemned, no false religions to be challenged, no ancient rite of the Mass at high altar to impede ecumenism, no kneeling to receive Holy Communion on the tongue to strengthen belief in, and reverence for, the Blessed Sacrament, no mention of the infallible dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus or of the doctrines on Hell and purgatory, etc., not a single element of Traditional teaching and practice left undiluted or silenced.

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