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Cultural Counterpoint by Jason M. Morgan

Sons of Liberty, Sons of Anarchy
October 2020We Americans are a revolutionary people. Our homegrown hooligans are convinced of the purity of their motives and their righteousness.
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The Golden Age of Quackery
May 2020The West's turning away from Faith and the sacraments has opened a void we now try to fill with whatever hucksters come up with next.
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Conservatism: The God That Failed
December 2019Conservatism claims to respect the Church, to have regard for God, but it reduces the Church and remolds God as a supporting figure.
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Denizens of a Pale Blue Dust Mote
July-August 2019Carl Sagan’s immanent nihilism is premised on the seemingly conflicting notions that mankind is nothing and yet everything, simultaneously.
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“Raising Awareness”: Reducing Philanthropy to Vanity
May 2019There is something very particularly American about "raising awareness": it is democratic, in seeking to sway public opinion; it is optimistic; it is evangelical and yet post-Christian.
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By the Lakes of Babylon
March 2019Fr. Hesburgh proved to be a perfect avatar for the Notre Dame he created: an endorser of some kind of vaguely conceived “natural religion.”
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The Great Awokening: The Puritan Roots of the Social Justice Warrior
January-February 2019Social Justice Warriors behave like cult members. They are little Cromwells who demand Robespierre-level ideological purity of every single person.
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Finding Security Behind Closed Doors
December 2018The sexbot is a tool that uses us and mocks our weakness. It is a vision of Hell: inhuman, ruthless, mendacious, comfortless, and cold.
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Emblem of an Exhausted Era
October 2018"Novitiate" is a film to be expected at the bitter, burnt-out end of the sexual revolution. It is not so much a movie as a cry for help.
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