Sunday, October 27, 2024

Progressive Catholics and capital punishment

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The debate over capital punishment between conservative and progressive Catholics typically exhibits the following dialectic.  The conservat...
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Monday, October 21, 2024

Augustine, liberalism, and political polarization

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In my latest article at Postliberal Order , I discuss the light that Augustine’s account of peace as “the tranquility of order” sheds on th...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Immortal Souls now available

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After some frustrating delays in distribution, my book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature is now in stock and available from Amazon...
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Friday, October 4, 2024

Abortion and subsidiarity

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Ever since the Dobbs decision permitted states to set their own abortion policies, Donald Trump has taken the position that the issue should...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Vinco on Feser in Philosophische Rundschau

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German-speaking readers might be interested in Roberto Vinco’s article “Neo-Scholastic Metaphysics in the 21st Century: An Examination of th...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

The latest on Immortal Souls

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Philosophers William Vallicella and Christopher Kaczor weigh in on my new book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature .  At his blog, Bi...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

The new Aquinas 101

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The Thomistic Institute has launched a new Aquinas 101 learning platform for its well-known and excellent series of videos.  Check it out he...
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Sunday, September 22, 2024

The popesplainer’s safety dance

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Pope Francis recently added yet another item to the long list of doctrinally problematic statements he has issued through the course of his ...
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Sunday, September 15, 2024

Trump: A buyer’s guide

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In the weeks since I wrote on the dilemma that Donald Trump has put social conservatives in, the problem has only become far more pronounce...
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Sunday, September 1, 2024

The problem with the “hard problem”

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn is well-known as the creator and host of the public television series Closer to Truth , an invaluable source of intervi...
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Monday, August 19, 2024

Rawls’s liberal integralism

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John Rawls’s political liberalism is no more neutral and no less religiously particular than a comprehensively Catholic society.  I elaborat...
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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Trump has put social conservatives in a dilemma

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Let’s begin with the obvious.  No social conservative could possibly justify voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.  They are pro-abortion e...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Damnation roundup

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The reality of hell is the clear and infallible teaching of scripture and tradition.  I would argue that even purely philosophical argumenta...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Word on Fire Institute course

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My six-part video course on Six Arguments for the Existence of God is available for free from the Word on Fire Institute.  A short preview ...
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Saturday, July 20, 2024

More on the GOP and social conservatism

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For those not following me on X (Twitter) , some posts from the last couple of days attempting further to clarify what is at issue, and at s...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Now is the time for social conservatives to fight

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Readers who follow me on X (Twitter) will know of the intense debate occurring there over the last week between social conservatives critic...
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Sunday, July 14, 2024

Fight, yes, but for what?

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It is impossible not to admire the resilience and fighting spirit with which Donald Trump responded – literally within moments – to the fail...
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Friday, July 12, 2024

The future of the Magisterium

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The latest issue of First Things features a symposium on the future of the Catholic Church, to which I contributed an article on the futur...
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Thursday, July 11, 2024

Rawls on religion

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Though John Rawls wrote much that is of relevance to religion – and in particular, to the question of what influence it can properly have on...
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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Hobbes and Kant on capital punishment

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Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant both had an enormous formative influence on modern moral and political philosophy, and on liberalism in part...
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Friday, June 21, 2024

Immortal Souls in eBook format

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The paperback version of my new book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature sold out on Amazon within a day of being listed there.  No ...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Scruton on tradition

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Roger Scruton’s essay “Rousseau and the Origins of Liberalism” first appeared in The New Criterion in 1998, and was reprinted in The Betra...
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Friday, June 7, 2024

Immortal Souls now available for pre-order

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My new book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature is now available for pre-order in the U.S. at Amazon.com .  Here again are the back ...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Postliberalism is not despotism

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In a new article at Postliberal Order , I explain why, contrary to a common straw man, postliberalism does not entail despotism.
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Saturday, June 1, 2024

Multiverses and falsifiability

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Adam Becker’s 2018 book What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics is an excellent account of the longstanding a...
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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Update on Immortal Souls

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Immortal Souls has at last been reduced from potency to act.  The official publication dates are in June for Europe and July in the United ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

New video course at Word on Fire

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Recently I recorded a six-part video course titled Six Arguments for the Existence of God for the Word on Fire Institute .  You can find an...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Immortal Souls

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My book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature will be published this summer by Editiones Scholasticae.  At well over 500 pages, it...
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Friday, May 10, 2024

Let’s open it up

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If we had a new open thread post, what would you talk about?  Current events?  That off-topic philosophical or theological question you vain...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Dignitas Infinita at The Catholic Thing

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At The Catholic Thing , Diane Montagna interviews me about the Vatican’s recent Declaration Dignitas Infinita .
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Monday, April 29, 2024

Plato and Aristotle on youth and politics

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As faculty, including even philosophy professors, aid and abet student bad behavior on campus, it is worth considering what the most serious...
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Friday, April 19, 2024

Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

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Prominent philosopher of mind, apostle of Darwinism, and New Atheist writer Daniel Dennett has died .  I have been very critical of Dennett ...
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Mansini on the development of doctrine

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My review of Guy Mansini’s excellent new book The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account   appears in the May 2024 issue of First Things...
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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Two problems with Dignitas Infinita

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This week the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published the Declaration Dignitas Infinita , on the topic of human dignity.  I ...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Western civilization's immunodeficiency disease

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Liberalism is to the social order what AIDS is to the body.  By relegating the truths of natural law and divine revelation to the private sp...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Ed Piskor (1982-2024)

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This week, cartoonist Ed Piskor committed suicide in the wake of the relentless online pillorying and overnight destruction of his career th...
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The illusion of AI

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My essay “The Illusion of Artificial Intelligence” appears in the latest issue of the Word on Fire Institute’s journal Evangelization &...
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Friday, March 29, 2024

Wishful thinking about Judas

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In a recent article at Catholic Answers titled “Hope for Judas?” Jimmy Akin tells us that though he used to find convincing the traditiona...
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Jesuit Britain?

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Did Spanish Scholastic thinkers influence British liberalism? You can now access my Religion and Liberty review of Projections of Spanish ...
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Monday, March 25, 2024

Mind, matter, and malleability

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Continuing our look at Jacques Maritain’s Three Reformers: Luther, Descartes, Rousseau , let’s consider some arresting passages on the conc...
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