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The Confusion of the American: Fighting for the Enemy
Read ☛: The Confusion of the American: Fighting for the EnemyFor in this our age, we are not being deprived of our rights, our freedom, or our humanity with the force of arms; jackbooted thugs need not prowl the streets to ensure ideological conformity or at least silence against the ideology of the day; no, for they attack us now with the blade of social…
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What is an American?
Read ☛: What is an American?I have been asking what various people thought it meant to be an American, or what being an American meant to them. This is the result.
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The Holy Neighborhood: The Subversive Joy of Embracing Parish Life
Read ☛: The Holy Neighborhood: The Subversive Joy of Embracing Parish LifeIt is one of the peculiar failures of modernity that so many Catholics attend Mass but do not belong to their parishes. They slip in and out of pews like shadows, avoiding eye contact, avoiding conversation, avoiding community. St. Francis de Sales would gently chide them: “The secret to Christian devotion is not to withdraw…
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God Starts on Two
Read ☛: God Starts on TwoIf God starts on two, so should we. For those who don’t know, this is a dancing reference—and, furthermore, the brief insight I’d like to share is a direct result of my own experience salsa dancing.
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What Profit Have Workers From Their Toil?
Read ☛: What Profit Have Workers From Their Toil?When I use my washing machine or dishwasher, I should at least be aware that many people’s work, many hours of their lives, were spent to make them. I should try to purchase things as well as I can that are made in places that uphold the dignity of the laborer and their labor. And…
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The Sacred Ordinary: On the Revolutionary Act of Staying Put
Read ☛: The Sacred Ordinary: On the Revolutionary Act of Staying PutIn an age of unprecedented mobility, when man can traverse continents in hours and switch careers as easily as he changes his gender, the most radical act has become the simple art of remaining still.
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Children learn to form letters, phrase sentences, then to write paragraphs, then essays. In the same way, we have watched our community learn to say hello, to small talk, then to gather and bounce around ideas. But it mustn’t end there.
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The principles of neighborhood and subsistence will be disparaged by the globalists as ‘protectionism’ — and that is exactly what it is. It is a protectionism that is just and sound, because it protects local producers and is the best assurance of adequate supplies to local consumers. And the idea that local needs should be met first and only surpluses exported does not imply any prejudice against charity toward people in other places or trade with them. The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. And the principle of subsistence is in fact the best guarantee of giveable or marketable surpluses. This kind of protection is not ‘isolationism.”
― Wendell Berry