Emails to Malcolm
In the spirit of C.S. Lewis, Kevin O'Brien emails his friend Malcolm for the holidays, and in the exchange he reveals Malcolm's spiritual, intellectual, and political ambiguity.
The Catholic Church After Obergefell
Let us use the occasion of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision not to engage in railing and political strategizing, but to take stock of our spiritual and intellectual health.
A Visit to Azman's Market
Founded in the 1920s by the Azman family, walking into Azman's Market on St. Clair Avenue on Cleveland’s East Side is like walking back into 1924.
What Flying to Rural Australia Taught Me
Australia is not exactly renowned for its practices of Distributism. With a big landmass and sparse population it has often been a logistical nightmare.
Propaganda
A distributist way of life would go a long way toward immunizing society against propaganda.
Earth Ought Not to Look Like Hell
Chesterton understood exactly what they meant. They meant the “feeble-minded” on earth. They meant the “lower classes" or “humanity minus ourselves.”
The Case for Popery
Popery provides the Church with an actual point of reference—a living, breathing, center of gravity within time and place.
Alan Bennett, Alan Bennett and The Lady in the Van
John C. Médaille takes his wife to see The Lady in the Van.
The Rise and Fall of Branson
Branson, Missouri, exists as a kind of sign. It’s the abandoned suburban shopping mall of the Ozarks—or at least is fast becoming that.
The “One-sided Truce” with the Modern World
The modern world has become unreal. It has become unreal because it rejects the ultimate reality. It rejects God.
Our Savior the Shopping Mall
Is the shopping mall our new savior? Kevin O'Brien waxes on the artificiality of commercial and retail goliaths.
The False Cult of Progress
You cannot have progress, you cannot have improvement, unless you first identify where you are coming from and where you are going.
Orestes Brownson: Forgotten Prophet
Kevin O'Brien explores how, in many ways, Orestes Brownson was the American Bl. John Henry Newman.
Left Meets Right At Christmas Dinner
When the family is torn asunder by divorce, pornography, adultery, same-sex “marriage” and the like, society as a whole suffers.
The Nightmare Before Christmas and the True Meaning of Advent
The secular holiday season, like a nightmare, seems a bit at odds with the character of serenity with which one should await the coming of the Lord.
On Writing In Dark Times
We are not primarily writing and reading and publishing to “fix” the City of Man.
It is (Never) Enough
It's never enough—til we've had enough. We'll never be fed, until we're fed up. It's all unreal, until we get real.
Judge Judy and Distributism
If Judge Judy were running for president, Kevin O'Brien would vote for her.
The Beast in His Natural Habitat
Dinosaurs are locally-grown attractions pulled right from the layers of the earth itself.
Christmas and Contraception
An immoral economic system paved the way to the widespread of acceptance of contraception.