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.
Prison and Paradise
We have not only paved paradise and put up a parking lot; we have paved paradise and put up a prison.
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.
Our Savior the Shopping Mall
Is the shopping mall our new savior? Kevin O'Brien waxes on the artificiality of commercial and retail goliaths.
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.
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.
Registered Trademark and Then You Die
Kevin O'Brien explores trademarks during the happiest season of all: Christmas.
Christians and the Economy
How many among us self-proclaimed Christians make our living off of the more and more imaginary and arbitrary world of finance?
The Wedding of Hudge and Gudge
Kevin O'Brien investigates the marriage of Mr. Hudge and Mr. Gudge.
The Lover’s Leap of the Right and the Left
So the aging hippies of the left hold hands with the survivalist Tea party conservatives of the right and they both jump gaily over the waterfall.
LOSE MONEY NOW! ASK ME HOW!
Herbalife is based on the great lie that money can be made where no wealth is created.
Sanity for Helen...and the Rest of Us
Distributism begins by recognizing that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; that our economies must serve us, not us our economies.