David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, Three Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, and most recently Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church.

Pascal and the Jesuits

Friday, December 1, 2017


The Unitarian Example: A Cautionary Tale

Friday, November 17, 2017


The Oddity of the LGBT Alliance

Friday, November 3, 2017


Sameness versus Equality

Friday, October 20, 2017


How to Destroy Catholicism in America

Friday, October 6, 2017


Totalitarianism, Anarchism, and Our Growing Discontents

Friday, September 22, 2017


From Civil Religion to “Hate”

Friday, September 8, 2017


Why We Need Sacred Things (Plural)

Friday, August 11, 2017


The Gravitational Pull of Atheism

Friday, July 28, 2017


American Kids

Friday, July 14, 2017


Five Kinds of Feminism

Friday, June 30, 2017


Our Utopian Revolutionaries

Friday, June 16, 2017


Are Things What You Think They Are?

Saturday, June 3, 2017


In Search of Social Cohesion

Friday, May 19, 2017


The Verdict of “the Future”

Friday, May 5, 2017


Private Judgment and Anarchy

Friday, April 21, 2017


An Ethic of Feeling

Friday, April 7, 2017


The Two Progressive Impulses

Friday, March 24, 2017


The Many Uses of the Myth of White Racism

Friday, March 10, 2017


Religion: Thick and Thin

Friday, February 24, 2017


The “Good News” of an Ideological Party

Friday, December 30, 2016


Can We Float in Mid-air?

Friday, December 16, 2016


Whose Side Are We on?

Friday, December 2, 2016


“You Have Hurt My Feelings”

Saturday, November 19, 2016


The Drift toward the Niagara of Skepticism

Friday, November 4, 2016


The Moral Conflicts of Abortion Advocates

Friday, October 21, 2016


Will Our Theory of Morality Destroy Us?

Friday, October 7, 2016


Let’s Not Make a Fuss

Wednesday, September 21, 2016


Morality as a Man-Made Thing

Thursday, September 8, 2016


The Fading of Three Christian Virtues

Friday, August 26, 2016


The Wages of Moral Autonomy

Thursday, August 11, 2016


Against Cosmopolitanism

Friday, July 29, 2016


The Human Need for Sacred Community

Friday, July 15, 2016


The Liquidation of Christianity

Friday, July 1, 2016


Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Gun Violence

Friday, June 17, 2016


The Old Charge Resurfaces: Catholics are Un-American

Friday, June 3, 2016


A New and Improved God

Friday, May 20, 2016


Money Talks, It Even Tells a Story

Friday, May 6, 2016


Our (Sexual) Carthage Must Be Destroyed

Friday, April 22, 2016


The Pro-Absurdity Revolution

Saturday, April 9, 2016


Notre Dame and the Hungry Sheep

Friday, March 11, 2016


The New Virtues of Our Privileged Leaders

Friday, February 26, 2016


A New Supreme Being

Friday, January 29, 2016


Our Bruce Jenner Century

Friday, January 15, 2016


Our New Clerisy

Saturday, January 2, 2016


The Longest War

Friday, December 18, 2015


A Dangerous Chemical Combination

Friday, December 4, 2015


Whither Islam?

Friday, November 20, 2015


The Cheshire Cat

Friday, November 6, 2015


Does Jesus Nod?

Wednesday, October 28, 2015