Philosophy

The Fraud of Higher Education

Universities stay relevant not by chasing the needs of the moment, but by addressing themselves to the lasting questions in human life. Continue Reading »

19 Mar 2019

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah by brant pitre image books, 240 pages, $24 In Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, Brant Pitre challenges the oft-heard charge that the Catholic Church’s Marian beliefs are “unbiblical.” He offers a rich . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2019

Taleb the Philosopher

by Joshua P. Hochschild

Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile by nassim nicholas taleb random house, 1,568 pages, $70 Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by nassim nicholas taleb random house, 304 pages, $30 Boethius’s ambitious goal to synthesize all . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2019

The World Moore Made

by Peter J. Leithart

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

by Martin Mosebach

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

A False Paradigm

by Michael Hanby

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