Papal Fallibility

BY SEAN WALSH Why the Pope and the commentators are wrong on Iran There are good reasons for believing that the relativists are doing the devil’s work, regardless of whether or not they know this. Relativism claims either that (a) what is true is contingent, and changes with culture, geography and calendar date 1; or (b) that truth is irretrievably hidden from us and that our relationship … Continue reading Papal Fallibility

Ponzi, Panzer, and Plunder

BY PAUL T HORGAN The ‘Guilty Men’ narrative in the Britain of July 1940 was a necessary myth. The state had given itself such massive powers in the wake of the Dunkirk evacuation as to be a revolution from above, so a superficially credible legend had to be created, as is the case for all revolutions, to justify the legal appropriation of so many traditional liberties. The rapid German … Continue reading Ponzi, Panzer, and Plunder