Emily Finley

Emily Finley holds a PhD from The Catholic University of America. She is a Senior Fellow at The Albertus Magnus Institute and the author of The Ideology of Democratism. She writes at The Christian Imagination.

The Traditional Latin Mass Movement and the Romance of Orthodoxy

Commentary The Traditional Latin Mass recently has been the subject of a surprising number of articles in mainstream ...

Viewpoints May 19, 2025
Grounding Children in Tradition With Folk Songs and Folktales

Commentary There has been growing awareness of the problem of the overuse of technology among young people, but ...

Viewpoints April 17, 2025
The Specter of Democratism

Commentary “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism,” Ronald Reagan prophesied. ...

Viewpoints November 2, 2022
The Democratists

Commentary The growth of our Leviathan state in the West has taken place under the auspices of democracy. ...

Viewpoints November 24, 2020
Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles

Commentary A climate of fear and righteous indignation—the two often travel together—has swept the country amid the mask ...

Viewpoints July 17, 2020
Why the Left Can’t Meme

Commentary It was hardly an exaggeration when Elon Musk said recently, “Who controls the memes, controls the Universe.” ...

Viewpoints June 30, 2020
Wish Hong Kong (Fare)Well

Commentary President Donald Trump is right to take steps to revoke Hong Kong’s special trade status, but not ...

Viewpoints May 28, 2020
Rule of Law for Thee but Not for Me

Commentary Like true apparatchiks, those at the reins of unconstitutional power thanks to COVID-19 have determined that their ...

Viewpoints May 19, 2020
Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Commentary “Induce belief and blind confidence, and you may do any thing,” wrote Charles Mackay in his 1841 ...

Viewpoints May 4, 2020
COVID-19 and ‘Democracy’

Commentary Our national response to COVID-19 has revealed, once again, how little our Establishment, including its henchmen in ...

Viewpoints April 29, 2020