Aquinas vs. Musk
by John JalsevacFuturists exclaim that brain-integrated, silicon-based “hardware” memory will be used to augment our natural memories. Count me unimpressed. Continue Reading »
Futurists exclaim that brain-integrated, silicon-based “hardware” memory will be used to augment our natural memories. Count me unimpressed. Continue Reading »
He lived, he worked, he died.” Heidegger’s famously terse summary of Aristotle’s life expresses one common view of the project of intellectual biography. An opposed view holds that every thinker’s work is a disguised confession—a translation into the abstract language of thought, of . . . . Continue Reading »
Kindness is a grace that acts in and on nature and is a tool for the good. I read nothing of this in the kindness literature. Continue Reading »
Nate Hochman joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October issue, “Cannabusiness Goes to Pot.” Continue Reading »
Vin showed us, in the scaled-down cosmos of the baseball field, what it means to be an excellent practitioner of the art of baseball—and thereby, helped us understand something between the foul lines that we couldn’t see in our tabloids and tablets: virtue. Continue Reading »
The artificial “lady” is the problem; “rational creature” is the solution. Rational creatures are capable of exercising and growing in virtue, in cultivating habits that make heroism possible. Continue Reading »
America enjoys religious freedom because the framers understood that religion inculcates public morality. A free society, in which government intervention is limited, is not possible in a population enslaved to vice. Continue Reading »
No, not the masks you assume I have in mind, the masks that have become such a bone of contention in our society. The masks I have in mind are the kind referred to by C. S. Lewis in a passage from his autobiography, Surprised by Joy. Discussing his experience as a soldier in the Great War, he . . . . Continue Reading »
Moral principles are either true or false, sound or unsound, regardless of their foundation. We should not, and indeed cannot, separate the beliefs of faith from the convictions and evidence of reason. Continue Reading »
J. Budziszewski joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, How and How not to Be Happy. Continue Reading »