Merri, Author at The Pillarist

May 31, 2022 Merri

On Intuition and Knowing God

In order to love God, we must know Him, at least to the degree we are capable. To what extent does Our Lady affect our knowledge of God?

Books Reviews

April 2, 2022 Merri

REVIEW: The Virgin Shall Give Birth – Fr. John Lawrence M. Polis, FI (Academy of the Immaculate, 2022)

Fr. Polis offers a detailed overview of the Scotistic doctrines associated with the Virgin Birth in this eminently readable but thorough volume.

Commentary

March 24, 2022 Merri

Ideas Are Not Defeated By Better Ideas – Part IV: Execution

With our conclusion, we address how liberalism uses violence to legitimize the ideas of its elites, and how this is undone.

Commentary

March 12, 2022 Merri

Ideas Are Not Defeated By Better Ideas – Part III: Identity

With part three, we define liberal belief and identity with respect to the managerial revolution and the technical society.

Commentary

March 2, 2022 Merri

Ideas Are Not Defeated By Better Ideas – Part I: Engagement

Liberalism and the free market of ideas are practically synonymous, but are they realities? In Part 1of 3, we approach how we cooperate with ideas interiorly in order to orient our understanding of liberalism.

Commentary

February 3, 2022 Merri

What We Lost When We Abandoned the Hearth

The hearth provided a common space for the family that was replaced by television first, and then the internet. It must be reclaimed.

Commentary

January 7, 2022 Merri

Brief Genealogy of the Midwit

We usually consider midwit behavior related to IQ, but is it a natural result of reasoning capacity or a choice based one’s relation to media and its consumption?