Reading his biography, one can hardly understand why a professor of theology and philosophy like Monsignor Brunero Gherardini was attacked so vehemently.[1] Born in 1925 in Prato (Tuscany), he died at the venerable age of 92—in 2017—in Santa Marinella (Rome). Throughout his entire life dedicated to serving the Church, Gherardini followed a consistent intellectual and…

Sir Keir Starmer is the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, King’s Counsel, Member of Parliament, Privy Councillor, His Majesty’s First Lord of the Treasury, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And yet for all these titles, his government has descended into the morass of…

In one of his most significant monographs, titled Les Origines intellectuelles du léninisme (1977 – The intellectual origins of Leninism), the French scholar of Russian Communism Alain Besançon observed that ideologies always produce what can be called “langue de bois” (“wooden language”). A specific characteristic of this type of language is the semantic ‘mutation’ to…