David Cayley on Non-Vax Passports

Even a fraction of the rhetorical fury spewed at “anti-vaxxers” would be hate speech were it directed at any protected class.https://t.co/Gvj8l9bPFC

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) September 17, 2021

Sebastian Junger on the Tension Between Individualism and Dependence

Bestselling author @sebastianjunger examines the tension between individualism and dependence that lies at the heart of what it means to be human. He joins @MattGallagher0 via livestream to share what he has learned. https://t.co/4HHMTNHnqO

— Town Hall Seattle (@THSEA) May 17, 2021

Feedom

“It’s freedom from oppression that you have a right to; it’s not freedom from obligation.”
— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger)

Listen to my full interview with Sebastian: https://t.co/Ff2xPN5L8P pic.twitter.com/IsGMeQCM1G

— Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) May 12, 2021

We walked 400 miles, and most nights we were the only people who knew where we were. There are many definitions of freedom, but surely that’s one of them.https://t.co/k6hpKW23Do

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) May 13, 2021

Let One of Them Denounce Feminism Publicly if They Are So Brave

Bravo to all the winners of the 2020 HxA Open Inquiry Awards! These are heroes of academic freedom and integrity. Bursting with pride in the brave and brilliant students of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition! https://t.co/y5mbWMA9aV

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) December 17, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: An "Eastern" Christology?

Eastern Christian Books: An "Eastern" Christology?

Liberation theology that is grounded in the Eastern Church Fathers?

Herald Press: Jesus of the East: Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded by Phuc Lu - Google Books

Freedom

Make the Switch

Gab, Brave.com, Project Big Fork...

The Disconvergence

Meet the CEO of Gab, the Free Speech Alternative to Twitter
Free Speech Social Network Gab Growing as Twitter, Facebook Censor Users

Economic Freedom and Political Freedom Go Hand in Hand

Land of the Free? Not Economically by Kirkpatrick Sale

Hence liberalism/capitalism justifies the reduction of both economic freedom and political freedom. Though Sale does not go into it in here, the problem is scale, not with legislation, and a definition of justice that overrides any other moral consideration.

There's a Reason Why It's Called Wage Slavery

Posted by ROME REPORTS on Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Pope's General Audience: Celebration, work and prayer are all needed for a balanced life

Pope Francis dedicated his catechetical reflection at Wednesday's General Audience once again to the family, opening a...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Pope Francis at his weekly general audience. Watch LIVE now!

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Here is an interesting video of an artist's conception of the original St. Peter's Basilica, the 4th century basilica which was torn down in the early 1500's in order to build the present basilica.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Wednesday, August 12, 2015

How Much Inequality Can a Polity Tolerate?

Aristotle had his answer - was it developed by Christians in the medieval period? How can one condemn the inequality that we find today without condemning one of its causes, namely the modern nation-state? One also needs to take into account the wealth (and the concentration of wealth) that was made possible through cheap energy.

Inequality is the root of social evil.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) April 28, 2014

Rod Dreher, Egalitarian Pope Francis and Twitter Is Not A Format For Complex Moral Discussion

James Howard Kunstler:

The first mistake of Piketty fans such as New York Times op-ed ass Paul Krugman is the assumption that the dynamic labeled “capitalism” is an ism, a belief system that you can subscribe to or drop out of, depending on your political correctitude. That’s just not true. So-called capitalism is more like gravity, a set of laws that apply to and describe the behavior of surplus wealth, in particular wealth generated by industrial societies, which is to say unprecedented massive wealth. The human race never saw anything quite like it before. It became both a moral embarrassment and a political inconvenience. So among the intellectual grandiosities of modern times is the idea that this massive wealth can be politically managed to produce an ideal equitable society — with no side effects.

Hence, the bold but hapless 20th century experiment with statist communism, which pretended to abolish wealth but succeeded mainly in converting wealth into industrial waste and pollution, while directing the remainder to a lawless gangster government elite that ruled an expendable mass peasantry with maximum cruelty and injustice.

In the other industrial nations, loosely called “the west,” the pretense to abolish wealth altogether never completely took, but a great deal of wealth was “socialized” for the purpose of delivering public goods. That seemed to work fairly well in post-war Europe and a bit less-well in the USA after the anomalous Eisenhower decade when industrial labor enjoyed a power moment of wage arbitrage. Now that system is unraveling, and for the reason that Piketty & Company largely miss: industrial economies are winding down with the decline of cheap fossil fuels.

Piketty and his fans assume that the industrial orgy will continue one way or another, in other words that some mysterious “they” will “come up with innovative new technologies” to obviate the need for fossil fuels and that the volume of wealth generated will more or less continue to increase. This notion is childish, idiotic, and wrong. Energy and technology are not substitutable with each other. If you run out of the former, you can’t replace it with the latter (and by “run out” I mean get it at a return of energy investment that makes sense). The techno-narcissist Jeremy Rifkins and Ray Kurzweils among us propound magical something-for-nothing workarounds for our predicament, but they are just blowing smoke up the collective fundament of a credulous ruling plutocracy. In fact, we’re faced with an unprecedented contraction of wealth, and a shocking loss of ability to produce new wealth. That‘s the real “game-changer,” not the delusions about shale oil and the robotic “industrial renaissance” and all the related fantasies circulating among a leadership that checked its brains at the Microsoft window.

Of course, even in a general contraction wealth will still exist, and Piketty is certainly right that it will tend to remain concentrated (where it isn’t washed away in the deluge of broken promises to pay this and that obligation). But he is quite incorrect that the general conditions we enjoy at this moment in history will continue a whole lot longer — for instance the organization of giant nation-states and their ability to control populations. I suppose it’s counter-intuitive in this moment of the “Deep State” with all its Orwellian overtones of electronic surveillance and omnipotence, but I’d take the less popular view that the Deep State will choke to death on the diminishing returns of technology and that nation-states in general will first degenerate into impotence and then break up into smaller units. What’s more, I’d propose that the whole world is apt to be going medieval, so to speak, as we contend with our energy predicament and its effects on wealth generation, banking, and all the other operations of modern capital. That is, they’ll become a lot less modern.

An academic 'proof' about what sort of system under which we live:
Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy
Simply Calling the US an Oligarchy Is Not Enough (original) - I should keep an eye for more from Jerome Roos.
Loosening the Grip of Oligarchy