Michael Brendan Dougherty
@michaelbd
author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer @NRO. William F Buckley Senior Scholar @ISI. Yes, DMs.
Me: Hey kid! Back up, you're going to get bit by that crocodile if you're not careful. Them: Crocodile lover. Big Croc shill. Why do you hate innocent kids?
Wild, are they playing War of the Worlds on the big screen?
Tesla Diner is so crowded tonight.
This is where I take a long ceremonious bow to long applause.
This one hits. RIP
We’re heartbroken to report the passing of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the age of 54 from an apparent drowning. A generation grew up with Warner as Theodore “Theo” Huxtable. His portrayal helped redefine Black boyhood on screen, offering humor, vulnerability, and depth across eight…
I’m sorry but a bunch of Catholics objecting to an ignoramus American Evangelical slandering dead Catholic kids is not “an op,” Park. Someone trying to psychically connect their natural revulsion to a Qatari intel project is running the “op.”
Like the lib moral panics and mass persuasion efforts of Trump 1, it is a “distributed” digital campaign—there is no center or war room or whatever—that nonetheless moves through key nodes of influence and amplification. Tucker is the most obvious one. It is always hard to…
James Lindsay is they type of enemy you dream about having, the intellectual version of Wiley Coyote.
Don’t know who needs this bit of wisdom from me which I give in fear of getting Walsh-shamed. But fabric samples from House of Hackney did not look how I anticipated based on their thumbnails. Fabrics from Mood really did.
Campaignnimplies coordination and funding. Have anyone on mind?
We are now in day three or four of a social-media messaging campaign targeting American Protestantism as a false/corrupted/Judaized form of Christianity that must be redeemed by the "authentic" Christianity of the East, despite the latter's categories of thought being completely…
Cardinal Pizzaballa says that the Devil is 'present and very powerful' and there is immediately a loud explosion outside.
Maybe you didn’t see the prominent guy slandering all non-Protestants in Gaza as people actively assisting terrorists.
The hatred and vitriol I’ve seen from Catholics towards Protestants on this app far outweighs anything I’ve seen thus far. I don’t see the same in reverse
Perspicuity Of Scripture Didn’t Begin Until American Evangelicals got the Bible.
The Bible is the authority, not “church fathers.”
Yes. Chief Wahoo is a caricature. Yes, caricatures are “reductive,” but not all are hateful. And not this one. And no sports logo should be burdened with a “full representation of the subject’s humanity.” The silly bat-swinging friar for the Padres doesn’t represent all that…
Would you support a return of the Cleveland Indians name and logo?
It’s a very weird event. They don’t deserve the universal infamy, and more importantly neither do their spouses deserve universalized humiliation. I feel bad for them all. But, the way they were outed- basically a Coldplay Kiss Cam-was itself “innocent.” Which is what has…
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and chief people officer Kristin Cabot have been immediately put on leave, Axios reports.
Pot meet kettle.
Thank you to all the kind souls who have reached out with words and prayers of support this weekend. There are evil forces trying to break up MAGA along racial and religious sectarian lines and it’s encouraging to know some people of wisdom and discernment see right through it.…
No. Stop digging. Most of his critics have expressed that Israel’s war on Hamas is just.
Most Catholics are not outraged over what Joel Berry said, even if they disagree with him. This is an orchestrated attempt to cancel him because he’s been a strong proponent of Israel and has openly criticized antisemites on this platform.
Stop trying to be a gatekeeper to a political and intellectual tradition in which you just arrived with refugee status. Be grateful or you should think about returning home.
This is the good man who also once offered himself in exchange for Israeli children held hostage. Bloodthirsty fanatics insist that we choose a side to hate, that we demonize either the Jewish people or the Palestinian people. The cardinal sets an example by refusing to do so
Today, Cardinal Pizzaballa spent a great time with Palestinian Christian children in Gaza.