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Guns and gas of World War I helped doom 133 million people. Have we learned the lesson?

It really is 1933 all over again.

Dispatches from the "Church of Happy Moments."

Fighting a just war is an act of love, as the Church has long taught.

Subhumanism has one fatal flaw that ensures its ultimate demise.

Just like our great-grandparents, we may well be on the brink of a civilization-busting war. And let’s not forget nukes are still on the table.

We don’t have the same system Marx critiqued in the 19th century.

But then again, maybe you've wondered what the story would be like if Noah was more like the Unabomber.

Why respecting private property is a matter of human dignity.

And other inconvenient truths about radical libertarianism.

Time to abandon the preferential option for the federal government?

The natural law tradition has been central since our country's founding and throughout her greatest reform movements.

Why do we feel so fabulous when the famous go on the skids?

An autopsy is ugly, but sometimes is necessary.

Lejeune watched with an almost uncomprehending horror in the 1960s and 70s as the majority of his colleagues accepted abortion.

Radical egalitarianism is bad, but so is radical individualism.

Even among Subhumanist ideologies, Marxism has the most blood on its hands. What led otherwise decent people to devote themselves to this tyrannical worldview?

Both the former president and former pope knew that liberty, misconceived, leads men and women to self-hatred and the culture of death.

History is rife with examples of the devastation left behind by Subhumanist philosophies. So then why are people still attracted to them?

Subhumanism is like a swamp where plants of a thousand species grow - and you can't predict what exactly will emerge.