This episode I had Jake Buscher, a fellow Catholic YouTuber who runs the channel Cutting the Gordian Knot (link below), on to discuss the intersection of Catholicism and free market economics. We touched on things like the Biblical case for capitalism, stumbling blocs around on usury and feudalism, how Catholic Social Teaching may lean on John Locke to help formulate the right to property, and why distributism is more a vibe than a school of economics.

In this video, I interview senior lecturer of history at University of Exeter Dr. Nicholas Terry, called the "the UK’s foremost academic” on the subject of Holocaust denial by the Observer. Dr. Terry co-founded the Holocaust Controversies website, which exposes in detail the blunders and errors Holocaust deniers make historically and scientifically. We discuss why these theories are all faulty and why certain online Catholic figures seem to be trying to revive them anyway. We discuss figures like Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and his Groypers, E. Michael Jones, Fr. James Mawdsley, and the original Holocaust deniers, like Germar Rudolph. He goes over the main points that tend to make, how they've all reached scientific and logical dead ends, and motivations they might have for holding these views. Here is Dr. Terry's website: https://holocaustcontroversies.blogsp...

A very serious debate arose on social media this week, with some self-described Christian Nationalists and Catholic Groyper Trads saying women should stay home and bake pies and should not nag men about looking at porn or being out all night drinking with their sidepiece. Women, they said, also should not vote or make fun of super-serious pastors who wage holy war online and use phrases like "fake and gay," or to be more precise, "gay and fake." On the other side were sane people, the Catholic magisterium, men who loves their wives, women who like talking (which, let's be honest, is most of them), and those who agree with Jesus and Paul about the importance of Christian charity.