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 »
MacIntyre in Retreat
by Edward SkidelskyHe 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 »
The Kindness Challenge
by Timothy JacobsonKindness 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 on Cannabusiness
by R. R. RenoNate Hochman joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October issue, “Cannabusiness Goes to Pot.” Continue Reading »
What Vin Scully Taught Me
by Jesse ConeVin 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 »
Lessons from Jane Austen
by Tiffany SchubertThe 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 »
Religion Is a Feature, not a Flaw
by Josh HoldenriedAmerica 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 »
The Hypocrisy of Masks
by Gilbert MeilaenderNo, 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 »
How To Talk About Christian Ethics
by Andrew T. WalkerMoral 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 »
The Key to Happiness
by Mark BauerleinJ. Budziszewski joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, How and How not to Be Happy. Continue Reading »
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