John Updike once wondered whether people no longer attended church because they’d lost the ability to listen or the ability to sing. Andrew Sullivan attends mass and discovers that what makes Catholic ritual cohere are the physical and communal. In Substack, Sullivan celebrates Catholicism’s teaching of humility – while warning about the civilizational threat posed by the Manichean, uncompromising zeal of pseudo-religions like Wokeness.
In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.
