John Schwenkler

This book, by the late Jesuit theologian Xavier Tilliette, discusses how philosophers from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries—including Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Fichte, and Hegel, as well as a number of minor figures—engaged with the doctrine of the Eucharist. It needs to . . . . Continue Reading »

Our attitude toward the Eucharistic sacrament is an attitude toward what is there. Continue Reading »

I can no longer comfort myself with an argument I used to find convincing: that the Church has always been filled with sin Continue Reading »

The profession of philosophy lost one of its most distinguished members with the death of Hubert Dreyfus on Saturday, April 22. Continue Reading »

If torture is wrong, it’s wrong whether or not it works. It’s wrong because it’s torture. Continue Reading »

There is an old story, much loved by academics, that in an address to the Columbia University faculty in 1948 Dwight Eisenhower, then President of the university, prefaced his remarks with the phrase: “Now, you employees of Columbia University . . .”A member of the faculty interjected to correct . . . . Continue Reading »