Philosophy

The World Moore Made

G. E. Moore helped dig the chasm that gapes, for good and ill, between the Victorians and us.
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18 Jan 2019

Remembering Robert Spaemann

Spaemann’s whole aim was to penetrate the veil of appearance and reach the objective wall of reality—even if in the end he could not scale it. Continue Reading »

14 Jan 2019

So much for the “new paradigm.” With the Church now mired in its most severe crisis since the Protestant Reformation, the heady talk of last spring now seems as distant as the “Catholic moment” or the “springtime of evangelization.” Rightly or wrongly, the idea of a gauzy mercy without . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

The Theology of Hope

by Josef Seifert

Not every kind of hope is good, let alone morally good. Continue Reading »

22 Oct 2018

Modernism and the Control of Nature

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Michael Hanby on philosophy and the sexual revolution. Continue Reading »

31 Aug 2018

The Job of Ultimate Observer

by John Wilson

The world is out there, and it's our job to go out and discover it. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2018

The Cosmic Gamemaker

by Kevin Jackson

People are changed by and through relationships of love—with God and with each other. Continue Reading »

3 May 2018

Believe, That You May Understand

by Charles J. Chaput

In 1970, Michael Polanyi wrote an essay called “Why Did We Destroy Europe?” In it, he reflected on the cancerous spread of ideologies and war in the twentieth century. He argued that scientific rationalism had initially “been a major influence towards intellectual, moral and social . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018