On The Proper Meaning Of Words
By CHRISTOPHER MANION Just a year ago this week, we reviewed Jim Hitchcock’s book, Abortion and the Catholic Right. The book was both a surprise and a disappointment: The esteemed historian had left professional standards behind and produced a rant attacking pro-lifers who disagreed with him politically. Some of those pro-lifers often appear in these pages, but the most prominent of them was Donald Trump. “The Trump movement was in many ways an ecumenical manifestation of the Wanderer Catholic underground of conspiracy theories, old religious and ethnic grudges, economic ignorance, resentment, and alienation from the entire modern world, an amalgam that for a time saw Ron Paul as its messiah and that above all yearned for the emotional release that…Continue Reading