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On Wanting More: A Philosophical-Theological Potpourri

Friday, November 5, 2021


The Labor for True Greatness

Monday, September 6, 2021


Rebirths and New Beginnings

Friday, May 21, 2021


American Storyteller: Ahmari’s “The Unbroken Thread”

Monday, May 10, 2021


Two Visits to the House of Slaves

Wednesday, June 10, 2020


Change the Model, Change the Virtue

Wednesday, March 25, 2020


A Religion Abounding in Revelations

Friday, December 27, 2019


What Reason Must Know

Saturday, August 10, 2019


On the Slow Decay of Things

Saturday, July 6, 2019


What It Means to Be Human

Wednesday, June 5, 2019


On Plato

Tuesday, January 29, 2019


On Retribution

Tuesday, November 6, 2018


On Persuading “Man to Be Acquainted with Himself”

Tuesday, September 11, 2018


“Humanity as It Actually Is”

Tuesday, April 10, 2018


On Being Catholic

Tuesday, February 27, 2018


Buying Virtue

Thursday, January 11, 2018


On Sad Songs

Sunday, November 19, 2017


On Refutation

Tuesday, September 26, 2017


“Evolution Has No Martyrs”

Tuesday, July 18, 2017


Socratic Reflections on Election Day

Tuesday, November 8, 2016


Before the Deluge

Monday, November 7, 2016


Sobering Up after the Caucuses

Wednesday, February 3, 2016


Judges and Their Occupational Hazards

Tuesday, December 1, 2015


On Being “Undisturbed” by Transcendence

Tuesday, September 15, 2015


Not With Unleavened Bread Alone

Tuesday, April 7, 2015


A Newly Discovered Fragment

Thursday, July 3, 2014


On What Is Impossible to God

Tuesday, November 12, 2013


Anthony Kennedy in Plato’s Cave

Friday, July 5, 2013


The Measure, and Measurement, of All Things

Saturday, April 27, 2013


On Philosophical Eros

Tuesday, December 11, 2012


We Have Been Friends Together

Wednesday, August 4, 2010


Tiger, Tiger

Thursday, December 17, 2009


The “Unexamined” Life

Tuesday, July 28, 2009