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Freedom and Intellectual Life
What is the point of studying the humanities? The question reflects the current climate among humanist educators:…
World Self-Revealed
In his now-classic Sources of the Self (143-4), Charles Taylor observes that Descartes is “in many ways…
Pure Music
Mark Evan Bonds’s Absolute Music is a study of 19th-century debates concerning the purity or absoluteness of…
Pattern of Paul’s Mission
Robert Tannehill points out in the second volume of his Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts that Acts 16-19…
The Future of American Catholicism
Every practicing Catholic in America is stuck between two worlds. On one hand, he inhabits a broadly…
Britain is Coming Apart, Too
Over at the Guardian, Paul Mason writes about the disintegration of Britain’s working class. The occasion is…
The Triumph and Failure of Marx
In the translator’s introduction to Augusto Del Noce’s Crisis of Modernity, Carlo Lancelotti outlines Del Noce’s theory…
Autonomy v. Independence
Matthew B. Crawford argues in The World Beyond Your Head that things discipline our attention and thus…
Poetry and Metaphysics
In a 1950 article on “Agrarianism in Exile,” Richard Weaver pointed out that the Southern Agrarians did…
The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries
Rachel Held Evans is once again arguing against “The False Gospel of Gender Binaries.” Regrettably, she does…
Why Do They Like Trump?
Yesterday, someone told me about a relative who lives in Middle America, struggles with a working-class job,…
Gender Non-Conformity Running Roughshod over Parents’ Rights
One objection that has been made a number of times to my criticisms of transgenderism is that,…
Foreknowledge and Freedom
In The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge, Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski outlines a variety of solutions to the…
Monotheism in Athens
Paul’s apologetic sermon in Acts 17 is often taken as a model of apostolic accommodation. He quotes…
The Tempering of Democracy
No, it isn’t just about Trump. Or Clinton or Sanders. It’s about democracy itself, which most of…
