CathCon Daily - 7/7/2015

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. - Edmund Burke

Is the World Becoming Fed Up? - VD Hanson, Pajamas Media

The ’70s Again, with a Transgender Bonus - Roger Kimball, Quadrant Online

Employee Theft - David Henderson, EconoLib

Russia's Leaders: Thieves versus Policemen - Mark Harrison, Blog

How Sexy Was Kant? - Alan Jacobs, American Conservative

Religion and the Republic - David Forte, Public Discourse

The Business Book Every Serious Student Should Read - John Inzero, Intercollegiate Review

The Wrinkle in the Affordable Care Act Decision - George Will, Human Events

Obergefell and Future Challenges to Religious Liberty - John Breen, Mirror of Justice

Dawson and the Dynamics of History - Jack Shannon, Acton

Paul Exposes $25,000 Federal Grant For Oscars Museum - Natalie Johnson, Daily Signal

Is the Civil War Long Gone and Far Away? - Patrick Stoner, Imaginative Conservative

The Unsoundness of Judicial Supremacy - Paul R. DeHart, Public Discourse

Iceland and the Essentials of Government - Bruce Frohnen, Imaginative Conservative

Unlikely Working Class Warriors - Patrick Buchanan, American Conservative

Justice Thomas, Marriage, and the Question of Dignity - Mark Brumley, Catholic World Report

False Enlightenment at the Court - Joshua Schulz, First Things

Oregon Did Put a ‘Gag Order’ on Those Christian Bakers - Hans von Spakovsky, Daily Signal

Waging the War of Ideas - Lauren Weiner, Liberty Law Blog

Are We Losing Millennials? - Joan Desmond, NCR

On Skepticism - James V. Schall, The Catholic Thing

CathCon Daily - 7/6/2015

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. - Lord Acton

Atlanta Fire Chief...‘Absolutely’ Wants His Job Back - Kelsey Harkness, Daily Signal

Culture War 4.0: The Coming Overreach - Domenech & Tracinski, The Federalist

The New Totalitarians Are Here - Tom Nichols, The Federalist

Civil Resistance vs. Civil Aggression - Fr. Mark Pilon, Catholic Thing

Eastern Orthodox Perspective on Laudato Si' - John Chryssavgis, First Things

The Declaration of Independence and God - Eugene Volokh, Volokh

Greek Taxpayers Facing a Future of Debt Slavery - Ian Daily, Mises

Shut up! They Said - Mark Pulliam, Liberty Law Blog

CathCon Daily - 7/5/2015

The hippies, as they became known, sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and restraints of the past and start out from zero.....Among the codes and restraints that people in the communes swept aside—quite purposely—were those that said you shouldn't use other people's toothbrushes or sleep on other people's mattresses without changing the sheets or, as was more likely, without using any sheets at all or that you and five other people shouldn't drink from the same bottle of Shasta or take tokes from the same cigarette. And now, in 1968, they were relearning . . .the laws of hygiene .. . by getting the mange, the grunge, the itch, the twitch, the thrush, the scroff, the rot. - Tom Wolfe

Progressivism, Purposivism, and Historical Contingency - John McGinnis, Liberty Law Blog

Green Pope Goes Medieval on Planet - Joel Kotkin, New Geography

From the Trenches to the Shire - Matthew Young, University Bookman

John Roberts’ America, Where Words Mean Nothing - Kim Holmes, Daily Signal

Wanted: Apostolic Bishops - Bevil Bramwell, The Catholic Thing

Bad Queen Bess - Dwight Longenecker, Imaginative Conservative

Confederate Flag-Waving at the Supreme Court - Ken Masugi, Liberty Law Blog

Some Kindly Advice from a White Old Guy - Joel Kotkin, New Geography

The Final Artistic Taboo - Mark Anthony Signorelli, University Bookman

A Tale of Two Independence Days - Gracy Olmstead, American Conservative

Courtship in the Age of the Pill - George Sim Johnston, The Catholic Thing

The Post-Obergefell Political Trap - Carl Eric Scott, NRO

E. L. James’s ‘Grey’ Goes Inside His Brain - Janet Maslin, NYT

CathCon Daily - 7/3/2015

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. - T.S. Eliot

Forever Hold Your Peace - Lydia McGrew, What's Wrong with the World

Post-Modern Creative Destruction - Mark Pulliam, Liberty Law Blog

The New York Times’ Double Standards On Art - John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist

The Declaration of Independence and the American Future - George M. Curtis III, Liberty Law Blog

Is the Culture War a Lost Cause? - Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, Imaginative Conservative

Burning Black Churches - Mark Tooley, First Things

How Socialism Fails - Bradley Birzer, American Conservative

Lost in the Cosmos - Daniel McInerny, The Catholic Thing

John Adams and American Independence - Gary S. Smith, Human Events

What is Wrong with the New Right of Marriage? - John Hodges, Human Events

Sites Don’t Want You To Know About George Takei’s Racist Rant - Sean Davis, The Federalist

Cheering for Thanatos - James Mumford, Hedghog Review

Takei Clarifies: Actually, ‘Black Face’ Isn’t Racist At All - Sean Davis, The Federalist

On the Tyranny of Biology - Kate Pitrone, NRO

Elusive Discrimination - Donald Devine, Liberty Law Blog

Apocalypse Now - Ellen Wilson Fielding, The Catholic Thing

CathCon Daily - 7/2/2015

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Bibliophile’s Conundrum - Gracy Olmstead, American Conservative

The Red Family Advantage - W. Bradford Wilcox, The Federalist

The Future of the Christian University - Samuel Oliver, First Things

The Pope and the Plowman - John Murdock, First Things

The Gospel of Lincoln - Richard Gamble, Imaginative Conservative

An End to Colleges’ Racial Discrimination - Bates & Spakovsky, Daily Signal

Happy Canada Day, Bastards - Douglas Farrow, First Things

Charles Murray Joins Federalist Radio - Editors, The Federalist

Quick Fix Would Euthanize Churches - Josh Harring, Intercollegiate Review

David Brooks, Which Culture War Should We Fight? - Joe Rigney, The Federalist

Bến Tre Revisited - Tom Christina, Liberty Law Blog

Unspeakable Acts Of Bigotry - David Harsanyi, The Federalist

Guardians of the New Class - Mark Pulliam, Liberty Law Blog

Axing Charitable Tax Exemptions Will Hurt The Left - David Harsanyi, The Federalist

Democrats’ Birth Control Deception - Willis Krumholz, The Federalist

What Gay Couples Should Do With Their Newfound Power - Paul Rosnick, The Federalist

The Future of Constitutional Self-Government - Scott Yenor, Nomocracy in Politics

CathCon Daily - 7/1/2015

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality. If war should come, it will do so on account of our delusions, for which our hag-ridden conscience attempts to find moral excuses. To recover a sense of reality is to recover the truth about ourselves and the world in which we live, and thereby to gain the power of keeping this world from flying asunder. - Nikolai Berdyaev

Drones Provide Abortion-Inducing Pills to Polish Women - Diana Stacy, Daily Signal

Jon Bon Jovi, American Hero - Ethan Epstein, Weekly Standard

How to Preserve Religious Freedom - Sarah Torre, Daily Signal

Aristotle, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Charleston Shooting - A. Gockowski, Intercollegiate Review

How to Make Good Law Bad - Kevin C. Walsh, Mirror of Justice

Marriage Policy Is a Mess - Jason Kuznicki, Cato

Obamacare Takes Center Stage - Jeffrey Anderson, Weekly Standard

The Mayor Who Froze the Rent - Seth Barron, City Journal

Through a Glass, Dishonestly - Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal

How Did Lewis and Tolkien Defend the Old West? - Bradley J. Birzer, Imaginative Conservative

There Is No Benedict Option - Bruce Frohnen, Nomocracy in Politics

John Ruskin on the Value of Imperfection - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Economic Stagnation and the Global Bubble - David Stockman, Mises

Until They Rest in Meta-Luxury - Andrew Ballio, Imaginative Conservative

Liberal Limits - Brandon McGinley, First Things

Stop the Media From Silencing Your Voice on Marriage - Tony Perkins, Daily Signal

A Minority View - Walter Williams, Human Events

Spiritual Light that Enlightens the Mind - Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Heroes, Villains - John Stossel, Human Events

CathCon Daily - 6/30/2015

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Supreme Court and the End of the Umpire - Robert Tracinski, The Federalist

A Divided Country Under Kennedy’s Constitution - Patrick Buchanan, American Conservative

Supreme Court Disasters - Thomas Sowell, Human Events

Are the Great Books Still Alive? - Josh Rogers, Imaginative Conservative

‘Legislature’ Doesn’t Really Mean ‘Legislature’ - Hans von Spakovsky, Daily Signal

Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Down School Vouchers - Jason Bedrick, Cato

Ohio Moves to Ban Late-Term Abortions - Kate Scanlon, Daily Signal

Does EPA’s Supreme Court Loss Doom Obama’s Climate Agenda? - Andrew Grossman, Cato

School Vouchers May Head Again To Supreme Court - Joy Pullmann, The Federalist

My Reactions to King v. Burwell - Mike Rappaport, Liberty Law Blog

John Roberts’s Principled Mistake - John McGinnis, City Journal

The Gift of James Horner - Jay Nordlinger, New Criterion