Someone needs to learn about hypergamy and the apex fallacy.
What about the complicity of academics when they knowingly make a living off of the students who are not given any boundaries by the administration (or academic senates), which pushed or supported the change from single-sex to coed? If universities didn't provide housing for students, they could wash their hands of responsibility. But in the push for more students in a co-ed "learning environment" hasn't there been a push for the construction of more dormitories, with general laxity or permissiveness in dorm life?
The Role of Government and the Liturgies of the Nation-State
As Catholics, we should recognize three points in our response:
1. There needs to be a recognition that governments (at whatever level) are in fact authentic agents of common responsibility. Or, in Catholic terms, governments are really and truly agents of solidarity. They are necessary is a number of ways, and potentially helpful in a number of others. Catholic social teaching, both medieval and modern, offers some clear guidance on both categories. The magisterial proof-texts here are well-known and numerous. We can’t be Anabaptists on this, nor can we be libertarians.
Is this an empirical claim or a normative one? If an empirical claim it is rather deluded - governments should be agents of solidarity but there are such thing as deviant constitutions and governments which look out not for the common good, but the private good of a select few.
Secondly, there can be no national solidarity. The scale does not permit it, except in an improper sense of the word.
As for the supposed American exceptionalism that was present from the very beginning -- Misuse of a Metaphor: In Search of the City on a Hill by John Willson. Catholics who have assimilated the post-Yankee mindset should be more critical in their acceptance of their myths.
I tire of the blather of Catholic academics on "contemporary issues." They should experience life beyond the ivory tower first.
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