THE CULTURE WAR: CONVERSATION WITH A VETERAN

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E. Michael Jones, author of "Barren Metal", and "Logos Rising" discusses his dissent from globalism and materialism, on Catholic grounds. We discuss accusations of hate leveled against him and his quest for a Christian charity in truth -- no matter how unpopular the truth might be.

In the fall of 1980, E. Michael Jones was an assistant professor of American Literature at St. Mary’s College. After receiving his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1979, Jones had moved his wife and two children to South Bend, Indiana to begin what he thought was going to be a career in academic life. But God had other plans. One year into the six years of his tenure track position, Jones got fired because of his position on abortion. Getting fired for being against abortion at what called itself a Catholic college was something his professors at Temple found difficult to understand. Taking his cue from their incomprehension, Jones decided to abandon academe and start a magazine instead. Initially known as Fidelity and now as Culture Wars, that magazine set out to explore the disarray in the Catholic Church that led to his firing. Over the course of the next few years, Jones and a host of like-minded writers began to uncover the sad story of the subversion of the Catholic faith at the hands of fellow Catholics in the years following the Second Vatican Council. In an article which has since become a classic, William Coulson described how Carl Rogers used sensitivity training to destroy the Immaculate Heart nuns in Los Angeles.

Jones documented Rev. Theodore Hesburgh’s alienation of Notre Dame from the Catholic faith and Hesburgh’s collaboration with the Rockefellers to undermine Church teaching on contraception which led to that theft of Church property. Jones’s exposé of Medjugorje in 1988 caused massive shock waves and equally massive defections from the subscriber base. Then in the early ‘90s Jones was appointed the biographer of John Cardinal Krol, then archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where Jones had grown up. After years of archival research, Jones told the real story of what happened to the Catholic Church in America during the 1960s with the publication of John Cardinal Krol and the Cultural Revolution. What previously looked like a civil war in the Church turned out to be a lot like Bismarck’s Kulturkampf of the 1870s in Germany. The similarities persuaded Jones to change the name of the magazine in the mid-1990s to Culture Wars, his translation of Kulturkampf. Since that time Culture Wars has become the world’s main resource in understanding how cultural warfare has advanced the interests of the American Empire and its systems of political control.

In 2015 Fidelity Press published David Wemhoff’s book John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition, which explains how Murray collaborated with Henry Luce, head of the Time/Life Empire, and C.D. Jackson of the CIA to infiltrate the Second Vatican Council and changes the Church’s teaching on the relationship between Church and State. Jones’s book Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control in collaboration with the Polish Bishops’ pastoral led to the complete rout of what the bishops called “gender ideology” in Poland. In the past year, Jones has spoken on this and related topics in the United States, London, Berlin, Dar es Salaam, Musoma, Tehran, and Buenos Aires. Jones’s trip to Tanzania led to the newly released book The Broken Pump in Tanzania: Julius Nyerere and the Collapse of Development Economics.

A Short History of Religion and Revolution

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0:40- Logos
1:27- St John uses logos at beginning of gospel
2:46- Orthodox have a different understanding of logos; protestants limit the word logos by ignoring the greek philosophy
3:37- logos is an all encompassing term
6:45- we must have a moral citizenry based on logos too make sound judgment
9:16- oligarchs love homosexuality because they’re easy to manage which is the gist of his book Libido Dominandi
11:34- prudence is knowing reality and acting on it
11:57- Christ gives us supernatural grace to solve our problem of being stuck in all our sins
12:58- God created the Church so your life can be congruent with logos
16:45- Ockham influenced Germany which influenced Luther who hated reason.
17:23- Protestantism was based on Luthers own inability to control his passions, which had a devastating effect on the Catholic understanding of faith and reason
19:04- science was on the rise and people thought we need to talk about science and the real world instead of splitting hairs with theology.
20:30- late scholastics abused Thomism, like Ockham with nominalism and then there was a rekindling with Suarez and then forgotten in French Revolution. Leo XIII brought it back with vengeance in Aeterni Patris. He made it the official philosophy of the Church.
21:56- reaction against Thomism because it can be too abstract with categories and not contextualized and practical
23:32- Modernism inspired Vatican II because history wasn’t being taken seriously by Thomists
24:59- 3 Thomisms by the 1950s fighting against each other and they were defeated in battle at Notre Dame.
26:29- McMullen became chairman at ND philosophy department wrecking Thomism
27:54- Accepting or Rejecting Jesus
28:13- The Revolutionary Spirit
38:49- Louis Newman's book about rebellions against the Catholic Church
50:26- Universities are a disaster especially for history, philosophy, and psychology. You cannot get this kind of information anywhere about history.
53:22- Christopher Dawson was his model using big picture meta-histories

Usury, Sodomy and Ireland

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Ireland is on the brink of financial crisis because of its overwhelming debt due to the national embrace of usury, and since 2015 when the country voted in favor of sodomy, it has been suffering from a moral crisis as well. This was manifested plainly earlier this year, when the country voted in favor of allowing women to kill their children with legalized abortion.

Development Economics vs. the Washington Consensus

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E. Michael Jones returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his articles "Julius Nyerere and the Heart of Darkness" and "Crisis in the Maryknoll Missionary Order." We talk about the collapse of development economics and how the example of the missionary work of the Jesuits in the New World perhaps offers an alternative model to the current usurious neo-liberal Washington consensus.