The Fifth Column

Christianity, along with all the other ancient religions, see the world as a zero-sum game because none of them understand economics. Thus, ...

One of the classic Catholic justifications for the death penalty is the state's duty to protect its own citizens from harm ( CCC 2265 , ...

The problem with vegetarians: they have no freaking idea how biology works. For instance, to take but one of innumerable examples, iron abso...

Education is NOT about teaching. Most colleges employ most professors as adjuncts (i.e., part-time). Up to 40% of profs are adjunct, part-t...

A lot of people are upset about Flock cameras. I must confess, I don't like them, but I can't see any way to stop them from what the...

Amnesty International is now up in arms over the Taliban's recent passage of a law allowing child marriage . I have pointed out in previ...

All colleges teach the same facts. Course content is the same. There's only so many ways to teach someone how to calculate the area of a...

Everyone says say teen years are hard. That's bullshit. Homeschool and all these problems go away. I never had a dime's worth of tro...

How common was lynching? In a country of 76 million people in 1900, there were about 4800 lynchings, total, for the whole of US history, and...

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex · Jun 22 It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be sub...

 The Bible warns against necromancy. Necromancy is conjuring spirits of the dead, in order to gain hidden knowledge or foretell the future. ...

 This chart makes it clear that different cultures have fundamentally different ways of resolving problems. Some cultures are pure shit. Whi...

 Christians used to argue that babies conceived via IVF were not human and did not have souls. When the Pope said they were wrong, the child...

Magnifica Humanitas demonstrates the terminal incoherence of the Magisterium as expressed by Pope Leo XIV 101. The gains in efficiency and t...

Every specialty has its own language. There is no question this is true. But math is uniquely able to destroy people's confidence and se...

  Everyone says evolution is real, but no one acts as if it were. If intelligence is a positive product of evolution, then smarter people w...

If you would like to see an interesting thumbnail about economic policies over the centuries, this link provides an interesting chart and a...

For those still defending Erika Kirk. Name one video, blog, or podcast she has done in which she has directly championed any of the points h...

First Things has published yet another article lamenting the refusal of universal truth, and the retreat into "private" or "p...

If the life you are living did not involve a vow of some kind, then it is not a vocation. The Magisterial documents do not consider single l...