Like many of my time and place, I first came across Philip Roth with Portnoy’s Complaint. But un­like many, I wasn’t turned on by the novel,1 nor did I find its vul­garity all that amusing or interest­ing, because for me, Portnoy didn’t so much liberate my burgeoning sexuality nor my sense of the out­rageous, but rather my already well-advanced Jewish self-obses­sion. “You mean I can empty the contents of my disordered mind onto paper and call it literature?”

The intervention went down on Friday, April 23, 2021. As far as Owen Benjamin knew, he was go­ing to appear on “Friday Night’s Alright,”1 the show hosted by Milo Yiannopoulos on Censored.tv, to talk about homesteading and the life bucolic. What happened 15 minutes in was an ‘80s style “ther­apeutic intervention,” orchestrated by Milo to help Owen rethink his strangely bitter rejection of the truth about the Blessed Trinity, the most basic teaching of Christianity.

The COVID situation in Kerala is peculiar. There is panic among the populace, curfews for businesses, lockdowns, double-masking, and a mass demand for vaccines in this southern Indian state which has a population of around 35 million and a population density of 2300/ sq. mi (three times the national av­erage). It may be thought that this panic is a reaction to what is per­ceived to be the situation in India as reported by the media constantly – mass cremations, oxygen tank shortages, lack of hospital beds, etc. The reality however is that the situation in Kerala is significantly different.

I first met Joe Scheidler at a Judie Brown American Life League, conference in what must have been 1982 or 1983. I don’t remember his speech although I’m sure he gave one. I do remember getting into a cab with him after the conference was over and both of us were on our way to the airport. He was well-known at the time, having made a name for himself as a leader of the prolife movement; I was unknown, and so it was natural that he would ask what I did for a living. “I edit a magazine called Fidelity,” I said, referring to the same magazine which would quote him five years later.

Last month, March 2021, during an interview on France TV-France 51 channel, philosopher Michel Foucault’s former friend and “right wing” columnist Guy Sorman (who’s 77 years old now), declared:

I think it is important to know when an author was or wasn’t a bastard (“salaud”). And when we learn that he was a bastard – just like Celine and Morand – we still can read his works. I’m not asking to burn Celine’s or Paul Morand’s books, but I believe it is important to know when an author was a terrible person. I’m talking about Foucault. What Foucault did with kids in Tunisia (in 1969) – and I saw it and I blame myself for not having denounced it at the time – drives me, not only to reject Foucault’s work, but to look back at it in a different way. It’s not about “cancel culture” like in the US, but we have to look at culture with a double sight. These things were completely despicable – with young children! – not to mention the problem of consent. They [the children] were not white, not even French. This is extremely ugly morally stuff.” Mainstream British Newspaper The Sunday Times2 was even more specific on the subject after interviewing Sorman: “Young children were running after Foucault saying ‘what about me? take me, take me’ he recalled … They were eight, nine, or ten years old. He was throwing money at them and would say ‘let’s meet at 10pm at the usual place.’ He would make love there on the gravestones with young boys. The question of consent wasn’t even raised.”

The occasion was an episode of False Flag Weekly News aired in November 2019. During the show, host Kevin Barrett and guests review the mainstream narrative while doing their best to keep a straight face. The guest on this occasion was Dr. E Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine. When the conversation touched upon Hindu nationalism, Dr. Jones said, in reference to the opinion of this author, “I have an Indian friend that said the caste system is based on usury, in other words it was the religious institution of usury that basically enslaved an entire population. To ensure these people would always be debt slaves, they made a religion out of it.”

On Monday, March 8, Ali Breland introduced himself to me via e-mail as a reporter for Mother Jones who was planning to do an article on Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, a media platform which over the past few months had become the refuge of those who had been banned from Twitter.

During the Summer of 2020, I began downloading and listening to Robert Sungenis’ Tuesday and Wednesday night Q&A. I like the questions from the audience and his willingness to give as much time as needed to deal with them. By November 2020, Robert had gotten many questions about Our Lady of Fatima, and I was enthused to hear him say that he was writing a new book on the topic, enthused, because several years back he and I had discussed in the pages of this magazine the “validity” of the consecrations of John Paul II and to what extent the age of Fatima was over. Dr. Sungenis had argued that the age of Fatima was not over. No Pope had properly carried out the consecrations that Mary asked for. I argued that John Paul II did so and that the age of Fatima was over. As it turns out, both of our theses were wrong in different ways, and his current book explains why.

Christianity became a favored religion in the Roman Empire, endowed with great patronage, after Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, thus legalizing Christianity. Constantine came to his decision after receiving a vision in a dream that he would conquer his enemies if he fought them under the sign of the Cross. Acting on that dream led to a decisive victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge on October 12, 312.1

Of the Pro Iudaeis of the Jew Treves, disguised as a false Christian under the guise of Corrado Guidetti, Doctor in letters, we believe to have in the ten articles published so far demonstrated sufficiently the notable vanity. And although many other points of his booklet could still provide us with abundant material for a literary duel in the hall of Reason in Padua where he set us an appointment without maintaining it (and who has since heard from or seen him?); however in order not to continue after a fugitive, not preoccupying ourselves more with him but moving on, we will come now to keep the promise made to our readers in article X published on page 173 in Vol. 1 of this series. The promise is to show that Christians never persecuted Jews as the Jews and liberal judaizers and freemasons continually lie, but that instead the Jews always persecuted the Christians according to the truth of history. And that if here or there we cross paths with Treves-Guidetti, we will not fail to greet him in passing without entering further with those who do not show up for the long and more detailed discussions. So let us begin again with a new treatise on the proposed subject, which is not entirely useless, as we believe.

In 1996, I enrolled as a freshman at Michigan Technological University (MTU) in Houghton, Michigan, located in the Keewenaw Peninsula which I honestly believe is one of the most beautiful parts of the country. During my senior year at Airport High School, 40 minutes south of Detroit, I was recruited to run Cross Country by MTU’s Coach Gary Nichols who had a thick Yooper accent inherited from his Finnish ancestors. He was a wonderful coach and he also coached me in Nordic Skiing and Track & Field. Coach Nichols and my teammates were like extended family. As much as my life revolved around endurance sports, I did also enjoy the vast majority of my classes. It was through majoring in environmental engineering, playing on three Varsity sports teams, competing in Ultimate Frisbee tournaments, going on multiple hiking trips with a scouting club, and being involved in a couple of environmental clubs all in a beautiful setting, that I was certainly becoming more and more in love with nature.

In The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution (published in 1933), H.G. Wells writes of the future, predicting, rather optimistically, that there will be another world war in just a few years, followed by epidemic and famine. In this fictional future, war continues for thirty years into the 1960s, despite the people having forgotten why they started fighting. Humanity enters a new Dark Age. In a last bid for victory, the enemy deploys a biological weapon resulting in the “wandering sickness,” producing the first zombies, and by 1970 the global population has dropped to a little under one billion.

THE FOG OF HISTORICAL WAR. How does the Indian past account for normative economic thought in modern-day India? In particular, the wide-scale acceptance of the alchemical notion that gold or money rather than labor is the source of value, leading to the devaluing of labor, the idea that cheap labor is an asset, and ultimately the hawking of cheap Indian labor on the international market as if it were like any other commodity. How does the Indian past also account for the conspicuous absence of the critique of the cheap labor strategy despite all the failure that has come from the slavish pursuit of it?

On October 2018 I wrote an article for CW with the title “A victory in the Culture Wars in Argentina” on the failure of the pro-abortion Jewish death squad to legalize abortion then (I gave a list of more than fifty Jewish pro-abortion leading activists and institutions). In December 2020, the same article could have been published with just a minor change of title, “Defeat in the Culture Wars in Argentina,” and hardly any changes in its content, for the pro-abortion actors, mostly Jewish, and the lobbying operations and the funding and the fallacies on the pro-abortion side as well as the cynicism and ominous clerical silence of most bishops, presumably on the pro-life side, were the same. In 2018 everybody in the prolife camp knew that victory was an absolutely provisional one, for the forces of the culture of death would come back at once with a vengeance, bloodthirsty and heavily financed by the same sponsors as usual. That is exactly what happened. However, despite of it all, things could have been different but for one simple factor: if Pope Francis had spoken urbi et orbi clearly and firmly against the abortion law in his own country of birth, to which he owes his own career, and which, by the way, he has never visited as a Pope. The question still remains: Why did Pope Francis not say a word against the abortion law in Argentina? Why did he not allow any of the bishops in Argentina to say a word against abortion, let alone organize any serious opposition campaign, which, again, with Francis’ intervention would have been utterly unnecessary?

Many readers of Culture Wars will know the name of Anne Barbeau Gardiner, who died suddenly at her home in Brewster, NY, on October 19, 2020. Over several years Anne wrote articles of great quality for Culture Wars. But then she wrote so many books, articles and book reviews for many publications. A glance at an academic website revealed no fewer than 176 items under her name. Already, at least two major journals have published tributes to her. I wish to do the same here, particularly since Anne’s great humility and self-effacing nature has resulted in her not being as well known as she should have been. As a mutual friend of ours once wrote to me, “She is that rare combination of a great intellect coupled with modesty and real Catholic devotion.”

No one was more qualified to write a book on beauty than the late Sir Roger Scruton. He was a man of impeccable taste and cultivated manners who could charm an audience even when, after being invited to a symposium at Notre Dame to talk about beauty, he ended up talking about wine instead. He most probably could have come back in a year and talked about beer and charmed that audience just as much a second time, but death intervened.

Canadians will be surprised to hear their country does not actually guarantee fundamental liberties like freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion. My country, after all, repatriated its constitution from Great Britain in 1982 and took the opportunity to have Westminster add a Charter of Rights of Freedoms, which certainly seems to guarantee these basic rights.

On October 3, 1998, Pope John Paul II beatified Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac at the national shrine of Marija Bistrica in front of 500,000 Croats.1 The next step was canonization. On February 10, 2014, the memorial of Blessed Stepinac, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, announced that the canonization was possible in the year 2015 during the Eucharistic celebration over which he presided at St. Jerome’s church in Rome.2 What looked like a sure thing in 1998, however, never happened, and why it never happened has become an object of intense speculation and discussion ever since.

The story of the current subversion of Chile must begin, I believe, at the establishment of the 1980 Constitution which was brought about mostly through the influence of the Catholic thinker and man of action, Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz. This Constitution was very well thought out and tried to prevent a new rising to power of the totalitarian movement know as Communism.

Thirty years ago, almost to the day, I spoke at Hillsdale College, the bastion of conservative academic thought nestled in the woods and hills of southern Michigan. My speech took place one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and one year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, at what we can say with hindsight was the high noon of the conservative era in American history. As the English conservative William Wordsworth put it when he was a young and enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution: “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven.”

On March 5, 1980 I was received by a Jesuit priest into the Catholic Church. I had always had a great regard for the Jesuit Order. This was probably, I now see, because I read a great deal of the Jesuit history that took place during the English Reformation. Subsequently I wrote two books on converts. One of them, having the unimaginative title of Roads to Rome, dealt with notable converts from Great Britain and Ireland. A goodly number of the converts described were either heavily influenced by Jesuits and/or later on became Jesuits themselves. In fact, one of the publisher’s most experienced proof readers, known to me only as “Cathy,” went so far as to write the following in her report, making reference to men, most of whom were Jesuits: