Blog Archives - CounterStrikeMedia

TOCQUEVILLE ON MODERN TYRANNY

4/30/2019

the_american_conservative_»_rebuilding_social_capital_in_trump_countrythe_american_conservative_»_pr.pdf
File Size:	208 kb
File Type:	pdf

Tocqueville’s Rigorous Logic of Egalitarian Conformity by James R. Rogers
Initial steps down the path of equalitarianism in turn create their own momentum, picking up speed and insisting on ever more conformity. Read More »

orrecting Our View of Montesquieu by Will Selinger
He wasn’t a theorist of “liberal republicanism”; he was one of the great theorists of early modern monarchical government. Read More »

Annihilation of Christian Life and People: Where is the Outrage in the West?
Meeting Catastrophe with Indifferenceby Giulio Meotti

Violence Against Christians and the Waning of Reason
By Bishop Robert Barron on Apr 30, 2019 06:25 pm
There were more Christian martyrs in the twentieth century than in all of the previous nineteen centuries combined. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and many of their lesser-known totalitarian colleagues put millions of Christians to [...]
Read in browser »

ON THE DEATH OF GREAT MEN & THE RADICALISM OF KIRK

4/26/2019

On the Death of Great Men
Jennifer Roback Morse
The death of a father is an earth-shattering event. When my father died in 1993, I felt disoriented. I had never been in a world that did not include him. I could feel myself move up the generational ladder. No one is above me any longer. No one who matters stands above me. When I […]

Longing to Remember
By Timothy D. Lusch on Apr 23, 2019 05:03 pm
“The Church became for me an inspirer of remembrance.” — Dom Erik Varden, OCSO The inferno at Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris left behind more than smoke-damaged stained glass and charred eight-hundred-year-old oak beams. Lingering after the [...]
Read in browser »

Remembering Fr. James V. Schall, SJ: Et ideo passio Christi dicitur esse nostra redemptio
By S. Hendrianto, S.J. on Apr 23, 2019 03:57 pm
Last week, we saw the passing of a great Jesuit priest, and one of the giants of Catholic intellectual and Catholic education: Father James V. Schall, SJ. Father Schall died on Spy Wednesday, the day [...]
Read in browser »

The Radicalism of Russell Kirk

REMEMBERING FATHER JAMES V. SCHALL, AN OLD-SCHOOL JESUIT By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
National Review Online
The late Father James Schall’s faith informed his intellectual work, as his intellect refined his faith. Read More

Measuring the Influence of Russell Kirk and Other Conservative Authors

ORIGINALISM AS IDEOLOGY

4/24/2019

Originalism as Ideology
by Michael S. Greve
Once you think about where originalism came from and what it was supposed to do, you begin to suspect that it may have run its course. Read More »

Symmetric Constitutionalism: A Judicial Ethos for Polarized Times
by Zachary S. Price
Courts should seek doctrinal principles that bear even-handed application across different contexts with differing ideological implications. Read More »

The Constitution Did Not Decrease the Power of the States
by James R. Rogers
Thinking through the logic of the Constitution with public choice theory in mind leads to some counter-intuitive results. Read More »

A New Birth of Intellectual Freedom on the Right
What Does the Fed Know that Nobody Else Knows?
Understanding Trump Country
The Crisis of Left Jurisprudence

THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY

4/20/2019

trotsky_on_ice_by_james_panero_published_in_the_new_criterion.pdf
File Size:	62 kb
File Type:	pdf

PARIS IS "WORTH A MASS"; AMERICA'S LAST GREAT JESUIT DIES, FR. JAMES SCHALL

4/20/2019

The Burning of Notre Dame and the Destruction of Christian Europe by Guy Millière •

NICOLE GELINAS
Three Fires, Three Skylines
If it learns from the mistakes of New York and London, Paris could rebuild impressively.

How Notre Dame Echoes Another Harrowing Fire
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | April 19, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-notre-dame-echoes-another-harrowing-fire/90655/
Next to St. Peter's Basilica and the Palace of Versailles, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is probably the most eminent building in all Europe, and of course, is older than the first two. It was saddening and even terrifying to see so much of a splendid building that has endured 856 years consumed in flames.
Continue Reading

Fr. James Schall on Books and Teaching
Roland Millare
“Nothing is more disconcerting, it seems to me, than to enter a home or apartment in which there are no books and no place for books, no sign a book had ever been there. It always seems like a kind of desecration to me, even though I am perfectly aware that bookless people can also […]

Uncle, Father, Jesuit, Professor, Giant
By Tracey Rowland on Apr 18, 2019 11:48 am
The marketing blurb on the book When Jesuits were Giants begins with the statement: No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits, loved [...]
Read in browser »

Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., has died at the age of 91
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 17, 2019 05:16 pm
Fr. James V. Schall, the prolific and much-beloved Jesuit, professor and author, died earlier today. His family states that “he was comfortable and at peace” at the time of his death. He was born in [...]
Read in browser »

James V. Schall, S.J.: The Embodied Catholic Mind at Work Marc D. Guerra
Midafternoon last Wednesday, on the eve of the Paschal Triduum, I got word that Fr. James Vincent Schall, S.J., had died. The news did not come as a complete surprise; a few days earlier I heard that he was going to be moved from a hospital in Los Gatos, California to a hospice. My first […]

Recollections of a Good Priest and a True Scholar John M. Vella
Last week, a good and holy priest went to his eternal reward after a long and distinguished life as a teacher and writer. Father James V. Schall, S.J., died of pneumonia at the age of 91 in the company of family on April 17, 2019. A few months earlier he had been hospitalized much to […]

HOW TO SAVE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL MORALITY & PAUL HOLLANDER ON COMMUNISM

4/17/2019

THE AMERICAN MIND

A HOUSE DIVIDED

Paul Hollander, In Memoriam by Lee Edwards
Fascinated by the Western intellectuals’ fascination with communism, Hollander was able to explain it to us. Read More »

RATZINGER TACKLES SEX ABUSE CRISIS IS AMERICA

4/12/2019

Editorial: Benedict XVI’s essay is both insightful and incomplete
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 11, 2019 04:50 pm
Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...]
Read in browser »

Full text of Benedict XVI: ‘The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse
’By Catholic News Agency on Apr 10, 2019 08:10 pm
The following is a previously unpublished essay from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: On February 21 to 24, at the invitation of Pope Francis, the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences gathered at the Vatican to [...]
Read in browser »

Benedict’s Essay: The Voice of a True Father Jim Russell
Why the uproar from some Catholic pundits regarding the recently released essay on the abuse crisis from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI? I think it’s pretty simple—regardless of what else one thinks of Benedict (and most of the critics were never fans of his), he speaks and write with a voice that is truly paternal. The […]

The Ratzinger Diagnosis
  By George Weigel on Apr 24, 2019 03:01 am
Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy sex-abuse crisis vividly illustrated his still-unparalleled capacity to incinerate the brain-circuits of various Catholic progressives.  The origins of [...]
Read in browser »

NO CONFLICT BETWEEN SPIRITUAL, CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY & AQUINAS ON "HOW TO TEACH"

4/10/2019

Confessions of an American Bead Counter, Part 2 Peter Maurice
In an earlier Crisis essay, I recalled the dismay at a social gathering when the host, a graduate of a Jesuit university, learned that his guest was a “bead counter.” Liberal Christians approve, and are even known to practice, the social gospel; however, they suspect a conflict between corporal works and spiritual devotions—like that prayer […]

Chaput, Sarah, and Schneider Weigh in on Our Troubled Times Jonathan B. Coe
One of the lessons of both the history of Israel and the Church is that it is unwise for the faithful to tie their sense of emotional and spiritual well-being to the words and actions of those who rule over them. This fact is highlighted with both clarity and brio by the 2018 book by […]

Professors Don’t Teach if Students Don’t Learn the Truth Edvard Lorkovic
Discussing St. Thomas Aquinas’s love of teaching, Josef Pieper writes: Teaching does not consist in a man’s making public talks on the results of his meditations, even if he does so ex cathedra before a large audience. Teaching in the real sense takes place only when the hearer is reached—not by dint of some personal […]

HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGE OF KANT, DRAMA VS. TYRANNY AND THE IDEA OF VICTIMHOOD BEGINS WITH ROUSSEAU

4/10/2019

Intellect and Intuition: Longing for Insight?
By Eva Brann on Apr 08, 2019 10:00 pm
We say of people that they have intuition. We apparently mean that they apprehend things directly without belaboring them by analysis or
Read in browser »

William Warburton’s “Via Media” Between Church and State
By Nayeli Riano on Apr 04, 2019 09:59 pm
William Warburton was a man who, as a theologian living through the debates of the Enlightenment, readapted his role while staying true
Read in browser »

Drama versus Tyranny
By Joseph Pearce on Apr 06, 2019 09:59 pm
Going to the theatre is not a means of escaping from the “real world” and all its problems; nor is it a
Read in browser »

Victimology 101: Rousseau, Victimhood, and Safe-Spaces
By Steven Kessler on Apr 05, 2019 10:00 pm
Many liberals maintain that they themselves are victims. Where does this belief come from? And why would anyone want to be a
Read in browser »

From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition
By W. Winston Elliott III on Apr 12, 2019 09:45 pm
From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition by Clyde N. Wilson (356 pages, The Foundation for American Education, 2003) Today’s
Read in browser »

THE LAST MODERNIST: BARZUN

4/6/2019

The Last Modernist: The Legacy of Jacques Barzun
by David Warren
As recently as half a century ago, there was a significant community in the United States which aspired—in a humble, decent, republican way—to acquire and promote high culture. These were the sort of people who launched “great books” programs, and begged European intellectuals to cross the Atlantic and teach them everything they knew. Jacques Barzun found and ministered to them... [MORE]

“The Nihilism of the Empty Tomb”
By Denise Sobilo on Apr 05, 2019 01:00 pm
They seek him here; they seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell? That damned,
Read in browser »

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SECULAR ABSTRACTIONS, RELIGIOUS MILITANCY & CATHOLIC IDENTITY

4/3/2019

How Now Shall We Live?
Regis Nicoll
From days of old, mankind has wrestled with the question of ethics. In ancient Israel, after fifty years of Babylonian captivity had all but erased God’s providence and law from memory, the Jewish community wondered aloud: “How now shall we live?” The very question presupposes a standard and a purpose. Even the early Greeks, influenced […]

Catholicism in a Time of Dissolution James Kalb

Is Vatican II Irrelevant Now? David G. Bonagura Jr.
Is Vatican II irrelevant now in the seventh year of Francis’s pontificate? In one respect, yes; in another, no. Neither explanation is what one might expect at first glance. Popes Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI devoted the heart of their respective pontificates to trying to implement—or salvage, depending on one’s perspective—the teachings […]

HOMOSEXUALITY & PRIESTLY FORMATION

4/3/2019

Male Homosexuality and Priestly Formation
Adrian Reimers
There is no homosexuality. Of course, there are homosexuals, but there is no one thing, no one condition or syndrome that is homosexuality. If we are to address the “homosexual problem” in the Church, then we must first understand what we are talking about, and whatever that is, it is not a thing called homosexuality. […]

Analysis: Gregory, Apuron, ‘zero tolerance,’ and pontifical secrets
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 04, 2019 11:44 pm
Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2019 / 04:12 pm (CNA).- Thursday morning, the Vatican announced the fates of two American archbishops: one has become the next Archbishop of Washington, and the other has been declared guilty [...]
Read in browser »

Analysis: Gregory’s road to Washington
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 04, 2019 12:53 pm
By Ed Condon Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2019 / 04:40 am (CNA).- The appointment of Archbishop Wilton Gregory to succeed Cardinal Donald Wuerl brings an end to one of the most anticipated and drawn out [...]
Read in browser »

The role of clericalism in the current crisis
By Christopher R. Altieri on Apr 03, 2019 06:37 pm
The Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, recently delivered remarks that focused on the leadership crisis in the Church. The churchman — a leader widely respected and admired for good reason — was right in [...]
Read in browser »

THE RECOVERY OF CIVILIZATION & THE MADNESS OF JACQUES DERRIDA

4/3/2019

The Madness of Jacques Derrida
By Josh Herring on Apr 01, 2019 10:00 pm
In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida’s prose functions as a deadly siren call; he appeals to the contradictions of language, summoning the reader to
Read in browser »

“Little Places” and the Recovery of Civilization
By Eva Brann on Apr 01, 2019 10:00 pm
It is mainly little places which permit the modesty of pace needed for long thoughts, and the conditions of closeness under which
Read in browser »

LEO STRAUSS & THE THOMISTS

4/3/2019

Natural Right, Natural Law, and Leo Strauss
by Daniel McCarthy
Strauss recognized that Thomists were fighting some of the same battles against historicists and philosophical modernists that he was fighting. Read More »

CRISIS OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY IN US RUST BELT

4/1/2019

CHARLES F. MCELWEE
The Battle for Rust Belt Catholicism
Amid metastasizing sex scandals and growing secularism, believers try to revive parishes in struggling communities.

CATHOLIC ECONOMICS
File Size:	1031 kb
File Type:	pdf

THE CHURCH'S GREATEST CRISIS

CONSERVATISM FINAL BATTLE.PDF
File Size:	366 kb
File Type:	pdf

SEPARATION OF FAITH-REASON
File Size:	9 kb
File Type:	pdf

MISSION

Global Strike Media examines the shape and sources the challenge of modernity presents to Islam & Christendom. How their leaders conceived of solutions to socio-political,moral challenges of the 21st century.

Archives

October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018

Categories

SOLZHENITSYN CENTER

THE NEW CRITERION

COMMUNIO