Government’s Unintended Consequences
The official summary of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) “does not address every detail of each [...]
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07, 2020
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07, 2020
Catholicism: Can the Decline Be Reversed?
That the Catholic Church has been losing numbers for decades has been well established. Why the loss has occurred, however, [...]
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07, 2020
Restoring Reason in American Culture, Part 2
In a recent essay, I explained how the social chaos being experienced in the U.S. today can be traced to [...]
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06, 2020
Restoring Reason in American Culture
I recently discussed why social chaos is spreading across the U.S. The answer, I argued, is that the movement to [...]
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06, 2020
Understanding Our Growing Social Chaos
An anonymous commentary made the rounds of the Internet before it vanished. It pointed out a number of absurdities in [...]
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06, 2020
The Bishops’ Flawed View of Racial Problems
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and individual dioceses were quick to respond to the murder of George Floyd and [...]
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06, 2020
Disrespect for Law and Order
Civilizations are said to decline from within by losing their commitment to the value structures that raised them to prominence. [...]
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05, 2020
Advice to a Disenchanted Catholic
A reader recently offered this (paraphrased) comment on an essay of mine: “Your essay and others like it leave me [...]
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05, 2020
The Gift of Appreciation
I recently wrote about the consequences of the Covid19 crisis—both the self-sacrificing good works it prompted and, in sharp contrast, [...]
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05, 2020
Crises Have Consequences
Covid-19 came to America and the rest of the world without warning and changed our lives in ways never imagined [...]