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Archive: Unorthodoxy
Secular radicals
Who's the radical? Brit Hume, the Christmas bomb plotter or secularists who see God behind every plot?
By Patrick J. Deneen | January 6, 2010; 09:04 AM ET | Comments (37)
A Christmas prayer
Often lost in debates over creches and Christmas trees is the transformative idea that God was born of a woman in a barn.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 24, 2009; 02:06 AM ET | Comments (10)
Moralism without morality
A Party of Moralists without Morality must face the distinct possibility that it is above all a Party of disingenuous scolds.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 15, 2009; 02:38 PM ET | Comments (5)
It's a Wonderful Subdivision
"It's a Wonderful Life" portrays the life of a small-town man who ends up undermining the communal basis of the town that saves him in the end.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 12, 2009; 10:28 PM ET | Comments (0)
How a culture dies
We cling to our modern faith in monocultures, even as the news seems to be undeniable that nature hates monocultures.
By Patrick J. Deneen | December 3, 2009; 07:37 AM ET | Comments (3)
Giving thanks for enough
A Thanksgiving lesson from our ancestors that we would do well to relearn: How to make do with less.
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 25, 2009; 11:45 AM ET | Comments (1)
God, Notre Dame, Country
Will the work at Notre Dame, aimed at healing the Catholic partisan divide, lead to a Catholic revival?
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 18, 2009; 10:37 AM ET | Comments (9)
Social injustice
How do we know if our concern for "social justice" isn't a kind of psychic compensation for a guilty conscience?
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 12, 2009; 06:55 AM ET | Comments (2)
Birth control and human ecology
Catholic institutions shouldn't try to smuggle Catholic teachings against birth control into health insurance policies.
By Patrick J. Deneen | November 6, 2009; 05:47 AM ET | Comments (12)
Benedict the Radical
The Pope sees Christianity entering a dark period. It must strengthen itself by shrinking to a core of the faithful.
By Patrick J. Deneen | October 28, 2009; 11:29 AM ET | Comments (64)
Liberal intolerance of religious diversity
Shouldn't the diversity among such Catholic institutions as Georgetown and CAU be permitted, even respected?
By Patrick J. Deneen | October 21, 2009; 11:11 AM ET | Comments (25)
Sex, Lies and Hypocrisy
Sanford and Ensign, Letterman and Polanski: Better to fail high standards than live up to no standards.
By Patrick J. Deneen | October 14, 2009; 02:29 PM ET | Comments (7)
