“The BBC reports that the North Hertfordshire Museum will now refer to Roman emperor Elagabalus with the female pronounces of she and her.”
Mark Pilon in “News with Views” “Compiled by Mark Pilon” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also are like unto him.” “Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.”
Proverbs XXVI:4 and 5 [King James Version]
“At one time, I was arrogant enough to believe I had an intellectual conversion to the Catholic faith. But, fundamentally, it was because God loves me, as he loves us all, and gave me the grace to convert. I only cooperated in his grace from time to time.”
Jeff Miller in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“When I was growing up, I had no idea what Black Sabbath was, but you better believe I knew about Ozzy Osbourne. That’s because he and his family were a part of mine. In the early 2000s, around when my dad started calling the TV the ‘idiot box,’ the early reality show The Osbournes was often on in our den. Watching that show was like peering into a portal into an alternate universe where dads had tattoos and daughters might decide to give themselves a pink mohawk on a Tuesday morning before school. Dinner guests might include Courtney Love or Marilyn Manson. The only rule in the Osbourne house was: No rules allowed.”
Suzy Weiss on The Free Press July 26, 2025 [but of course “No rules allowed” is a rule, if a feebly self-annihilating one].
“Every day as I do the liturgy of the hours in the morning as well as throughout the day, I am exercising my acceptance of God’s will, whatever it may be, and to strive to go where I hope he’s leading.”
John Walker in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Inevitably, if death is to be conquered, and if humanity is defined by its mortality, then humanity must go. This isn’t an extrapolation; he admits as much that man is a ‘temporary stage along the evolutionary pathway.’ Just like Mr. Shaw, transhumanists would ‘throw over humanity with all its limitations’ rather than discard their own philosophy. They are loyal to their own philosophy, not to our shared humanity. And just when we realize where their loyalties lie, More contradicts these very loyalties with an ironic admission: ‘There can be no final, ultimate, correct philosophy of life.’ It is a line so perfectly self-refuting that we need only quote it and smile.”
Brady Stiller reviewing Max More’s essay “Transhumanism: Towards a Futurist Philosophy” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Fools can be found to support anything…”
Theodore Dalrymple in National Review November 20, 2006 [specifically re people who call the niqab liberating for women].
“Leisure is not in any way identical with liberty. My dog has any amount of leisure. In fact, he has nothing else. But for all that he has no liberty.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 14, 1923, in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #1 (September 2000)