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

Alvin Plantinga’s Masterful Achievement

by William Doino Jr.

Alvin Plantinga is justly celebrated for sparking a global renaissance in Christian philosophy. Continue Reading »

5 Jun 2017

A Life of Being-in-the-World

by John Schwenkler

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

1 May 2017

MacIntyre Against Morality

by John Haldane

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity:An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrativeby alasdair macintyrecambridge, 332 pages, $49.99 I The dialogues of Plato provide the first sustained demonstration both of the depth and difficulty of philosophy, and of the fact that the beginnings of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2017

Cocktails with the Existentialists

by Richard T. Whittington

More than seven decades have passed since philosophy held court on the world-historic stage, in the cafes and jazz halls of wartime Paris. For those who lament the decline of the “public intellectual,” this period richly serves the needs of nostalgia, conjuring chic melancholy, debates conducted in a tobacco haze, and the evergreen romance of La Résistance. Continue Reading »

12 Jan 2017

Vulgar Deconstruction

by Mark Bauerlein

Back in the 1970s, when the humanities still set the intellectual tone for the college campus, it was common for advanced scholars to divide the personnel in two: There were those who understood High Theory and those who didn’t. New ideas and methods were in the air. Leading-edge journals and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2016

Political educator

by Brian C. Anderson

Over the past three decades, the French philosopher Pierre Manent has published a series of works on the destiny of the West and our modern political condition that are both profound and—atypical of Parisian intellectuals—expressed in luminous prose.

2 Nov 2016

Love Is Barefoot Philosophy

by Raymond Hain

Plato’s Bedroom succeeds by starting outside of religion, by unsettling all of us, showing us why our erotic lives are so important and problematic, so beautiful and at the same time potentially destructive, why love and death are never far from one another. Continue Reading »

23 Aug 2016