Some time ago, I took place in a public debate at the Acton Institute about the rights and wrongs of the so-called free market. Here is my opening salvo in that debate:

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/07/distributism-vs-free-market-globalism-joseph-pearce.html

After copies of my book Small is Still Beautiful were circulated to members of the American Solidarity Party I agreed to answer their questions. Here are some of my replies:

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/08/seeking-freedom-solidarity-joseph-pearce.html

Many years ago, G. K. Chesterton prophesied that the coming peril would be standardization by a low standard. America’s common core has proved him right:

https://newmansociety.org/americas-common-core-standardization-by-a-low-standard/

Those who prophesied the death of Catholic culture are being proven wrong.

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/we-are-beginning-to-see-a-catholic-revival-in-the-arts

My film review of Wonder Woman has recently been published by the National Catholic Register:

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/war-teaches-wonder-woman-a-lesson

EWTN has just released a half-hour video of a walk through Walsingham in which I converse about England and her faith with StAR columnist Kevin Turley.

https://youtu.be/HA-CscQuHXE

Why is the cave man superior to the modern progressive? The latest article of mine published in the National Catholic Register offers an answer:

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/science-versus-scientism

Apart from signing up for Kevin O’Brien’s Flannery O’Connor Book Club (see Kevin’s blog post on this site for more details), those interested in F. O’C’s work might like to listen to this podcast discussion that I had with Dr. Elizabeth Klein:

https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2018/07/23/episode-12-catholicism-and-flannery-oconnorsthe-violent-bear-it-away

Hilaire Belloc is a great hero of mine but that doesn’t mean that I agree with everything he wrote. In this article, just published by Faith & Culture, I disagree with Belloc’s juxtaposition of Europe and the Faith.

https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2018/7/24/europe-and-the-faith-arguing-with-hilaire-belloc

The Imaginative Conservative has just published my musings on Mick Jagger, which were prompted or provoked by a discussion at an airport bar.

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/07/mick-jagger-worthy-role-model-joseph-pearce.html