Beneath the 21st century’s “kidult” consumerism, passive-aggressive moralizing, and querulous whining, immemorial things demand attention: common cultures, shared territories and the natural world, families, friendship, love, and the religious urge.

Freedom’s Penalties - Chronicles Freedom’s Penalties - Chronicles

Jacob: Probably simply having to read a lot of new material, and understand it well enough to teach on it. I always focus on the primary focus of the Catholic teaching on love and sex in response - that the nuptial union is uniquely precious and significant because it is the site through which God creates the infinitely precious reality of a human soul. We find ourselves like the escapees who jumped from the Mutiny of the Bounty and gave way to the urge to slake their thirst by drinking from the ocean.Rebellion and revolution are portrayed as the only vehicle for true freedom, while tradition and authority are depicted as oppressive tools used to rob others of their dignity.

How duty can set us free - spiked

Dickens, even at his most indignant, would have been immune to the impulses that compel comfortably-off 21st-century kidults to rush out into streets to shout slogans, wave fists, and topple statues in showy “solidarity” with every culture but their own.Phillips, writing in effective and elegant prose, draws on literature, modern history and personal experience to craft richly human insights into thinking and living well.