James V. Schall, S.J. (1928-2019), who served as a professor at Georgetown University for thirty-five years, was one of the most prolific Catholic writers in America. Among his many books are The Mind That Is Catholic, The Modern Age, Political Philosophy and Revelation: A Catholic Reading, Reasonable Pleasures, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught, Catholicism and Intelligence, and, most recently, On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018.

On a Sermon of Saint Basil

Tuesday, August 6, 2013


The Words of Political Modernity

Tuesday, July 23, 2013


On the Alternative to Humanity

Monday, July 8, 2013


On “Severe Penances”

Tuesday, June 25, 2013


On What’s “Interesting”

Tuesday, June 11, 2013


Common Good/Uncommon Evil

Tuesday, May 28, 2013


Born Catholic

Tuesday, May 14, 2013


A Liberal Education: Reading Lord Peter Wimsey

Tuesday, April 30, 2013


Los Gatos

Monday, April 15, 2013


Easter Tuesday

Tuesday, April 2, 2013


The “Village Atheist”

Tuesday, March 19, 2013


Of Old Books and Old Professors

Tuesday, March 5, 2013


The Absolutization of Man

Tuesday, February 19, 2013


The Alternative to God

Tuesday, February 5, 2013


Schall at Eighty-Five

Tuesday, January 22, 2013


American Un-Exceptionalism

Tuesday, January 8, 2013


On Christmas Day

Wednesday, December 26, 2012


On Philosophical Eros

Tuesday, December 11, 2012


On the “Art of Jesuitism”

Tuesday, November 27, 2012


On My “Right” to Everything

Tuesday, November 13, 2012


On Elections

Tuesday, October 30, 2012


On Politics

Tuesday, October 16, 2012


“The Masterpiece of the Natural World”

Thursday, October 4, 2012


Wit

Tuesday, September 18, 2012


On Christian Humanism

Tuesday, September 4, 2012


On Natural Law

Tuesday, August 21, 2012


“Knowing What We Now Know”

Tuesday, August 7, 2012


The Heaviest Oppression

Tuesday, July 24, 2012


What Is a Constitution?

Tuesday, July 10, 2012


The Aborted

Tuesday, June 26, 2012


The Church’s Worst Enemies

Tuesday, June 12, 2012


Pentecost

Tuesday, May 29, 2012


What Is an “Honorary” Award?

Tuesday, May 15, 2012


The Ending of an Academic Year

Tuesday, May 1, 2012


Paul Johnson’s Socrates

Tuesday, April 17, 2012


The Plan

Tuesday, April 3, 2012


Totalitarian Ecology

Tuesday, March 20, 2012


Separation of Church and State Revisited

Monday, March 5, 2012


Political Withdrawal?

Tuesday, February 21, 2012


The Tyrant

Tuesday, February 7, 2012


Justice

Tuesday, January 24, 2012


The Catholic Thing

Tuesday, January 10, 2012


“That Your Joy May Be Full”

Tuesday, December 27, 2011


The Gorgias Myth

Tuesday, December 13, 2011


Universalism, True and False

Tuesday, November 29, 2011


Spitzer on Roe v. Wade

Tuesday, November 15, 2011


On Saints and Souls

Tuesday, November 1, 2011


Belloc’s Infamous Phrase

Tuesday, October 18, 2011


Vargas Llosa with “God in Madrid”

Tuesday, October 4, 2011


Legal Persecution

Thursday, September 22, 2011