The journal’s seal · Quis ut Deus?A note before the first issue
Against the easy answer
An editorial statement on truth, spiritual combat, civic life, and the refusal to dress surrender in the language of compassion.
Canada · North AmericaContra mundum · MMXXVI
A journal against the settlement of the age.
The Modern Inquisition is a dissident Catholic publication for Canada and North America. It tests politics, culture, and the modern conscience against truths older than the present age—and calls for peaceful, radical renewal from the roots.
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The journal’s seal · Quis ut Deus?The first issue
In development
These are working inquiries, not manufactured content. The archive will grow only when an argument is true, necessary, and fit to print.
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Politics & place
Against the Managed Conscience
On the soft machinery by which a culture teaches people what may no longer be said.
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Faith & reason
Against the Soft Answer
On the difference between charity and surrender, mercy and moral confusion.
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The common good
After Liberal Exhaustion
What a peaceful but radical politics might recover from the ruins of procedural neutrality.
ForthcomingThe journal
One author. A broad field.
Malachi Musetti writes across politics, faith, philosophy, and culture. The forms may change; the governing voice and standard of evidence do not.
Field notes
Public affairs
Canadian politics, law, institutions, place, and the common good.
Field notes
Catholic thought
Dogma, natural law, social teaching, and the permanent things.
Field notes
The notebook
Shorter reflections on books, belief, character, culture, and ordinary life.
Editorial principles
Interrogate the certainty.
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Truth is received and discovered. It is not negotiated.
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Defend the permanent things without apology or euphemism.
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Show charity to persons. Show none to lies, cant, or cowardice.
An independent journal for Canada and North America
Faith without sentimentality. Reason without cowardice.
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