My title has the word 'liberalism' in scare quotes because I want to discuss the sort of liberalism that has grown scarier and scar...

A shibboleth of modern Anglo-American philosophy is a belief to the effect that "one cannot infer an ought-statement from an is-statem...

The topic named in my title is one that I've written about before, for an academic journal , on this blog,  and in the course of combo...

You read that right. According to William E. Carroll —a Catholic philosopher currently ensconced as a good old Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford...

As I waded this morning through my overwhelming social-network streams—all of which now integrate into my single Google+ stream—I managed...

Apologies to my vast readership for the weeks of silence. At the beginning of September, I moved from NYC for a new full-time teaching job i...

Gnosticism is a perennial impulse. I don't mean all the mythic confabulations that the bewildering variety of Gnostic sects spun during ...

Lydia McGrew has coined a chillingly apt metaphor for the culture of death: "choice devours itself." She has applied the metapho...

In the late 60s, I believe it was, a pop song call "The Real Nitty-Gritty" achieved one-hit-wonder status. Several singers have do...

Over at What's Wrong with the World, Lydia McGrew announces: For a limited time only (get yours while supplies last) a  draft  is avail...

The notion that this is the best of all possible worlds (BAPW) is like a pesky kid brother who thinks he belongs with your crowd: one of ...

During the 2008 presidential campaign, I posted an essay called "Why I am a Conservative." Along with five or six other people, ...

At ST Ia Q2 A3 , where Aquinas offers his well-known "five ways" of proving God's existence, he notes and replies to two objec...