Category Archives: Life

A very enjoyable talk with Jay Dyer

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on February 9, 2024

Well worth listening to. We also talk about the deep roots of grievance-based, anarchical thinking in Western civilization and about my 2006 book Eight Ways to Run the Country. Trigger warning: Both very old and very new thinking here.

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Fifty Years of Sexual Suicide

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on December 6, 2023

Last month, November 2023, saw the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most prophetic book of the past century: Sexual Suicide by George F. Gilder. Haven’t heard of it, have you? But you might have heard of George Gilder, who went … Continue reading →

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Talking Gender with Dissident Mama

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on December 5, 2023

Shortly after my talk with Fr. Thomas Soroka on Ancient Faith Radio, I had the great pleasure of also talking about gender issues with Rebecca Dillingham for her blog, Dissident Mama. I mentioned our talk and linked to the podcast … Continue reading →

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Affirmative Action in the U.S. Military

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on July 13, 2023

Time was when the U.S. military felt the need to lie about using quotas to promote women and minorities. Now the Biden White House openly defends discriminating against men and non-minorities through the Pentagon’s various “Diversity Equity, Inclusion, Access (DEIA)” … Continue reading →

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Male and Female as Archic and Eucharistic Modes of Relation

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on May 15, 2023

Is not personalism merely a form of individualism—more humane (perhaps) than old-fashioned, rights- based individualism, but not humane enough to keep from reducing the human person to an inhuman abstraction stripped of the concrete particulars that define every human life, … Continue reading →

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Just Released: Origen’s Revenge

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on October 15, 2021

Is the difference of male and female to be “completely shaken off” so that men and women are no longer men and women but merely human beings? The great seventh-century saint Maximus the Confessor said yes, but such thinking is … Continue reading →

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Lord Sumption on Our “Empire of Fear”

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on March 11, 2021

Interviewed for LockdownTV by Freddie Sayers of UnHerd, Lord Sumption, a retired justice of Britain’s Supreme Court, reveals himself to be not just a jurist but a philosopher and a Christian. Here are highlights of his comments: We are living … Continue reading →

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