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September 2014

September 17, 2014

Hermann, Max, Woody and Falling Out of the Ordo Amoris

Yesterday we discussed Woody Allen as a liminal personality stuck somewhere between belief and disbelief. Being...

September 16, 2014

Woody Allen Considers Conversion

Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight has not received the credit it deserves. At first glance...

September 10, 2014

Atheism’s Ancient Creation Myth

The cardinal rule for writing a book is starting out strong with a memorable story,...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists: Moon Landing Communion

The manned moon landing might have been staged in a television studio somewhere in West...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Science Doesn't Think: Neil deGrasse Tyson Busts a Move on Philosophy

There are so many temptations to keep writing my dissertation uninterrupted instead of blogging, but...

April 2014

April 27, 2014

Ode for John Paul II by Czeslaw Milosz

"Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II" by Czeslaw Milosz in New...

April 25, 2014

Why I Thank Goodness For (Some) Atheists!

“I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some...

April 16, 2014

What Do We Make of a Disturbingly Radical Papacy?

There are papacies and there are radical papacies. Nobody notices the really radical papacies, because...

April 01, 2014

Famous Feminists Who Aren't Atheists: Luce Irigaray, Catholic

It took me a while to figure out a topic for April Fool's that would...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

Lies, Damned Lies, and Cartoons: Cosmos on Giordano Bruno

NEWSFLASH: The Giordano Bruno portion of "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey" (click link to watch the...

January 2014

January 25, 2014

What if Judith Butler was Ockham's God?

Judith Butler's account of love makes her sound like some fickle nominalist God who not...

December 2013

December 04, 2013

A Discomfiting Advent and the Comforts of Atheism

Consolation used to have a pivotal place in philosophy. This was not only the case...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 6: The Catholic Demarcations of Wallace Stevens

[Read about Sartre, Camus, Warhol, Hitchcock, and Heidegger in the "Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists"...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 4: Heidegger’s Nietzschean Sideburns

Due to a late night bout of copy-editing I am not able to write the...

August 2013

August 12, 2013

A Fish Rots from the Head Down (On Paul Elie and Secularization in the Arts)

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) is widely read in American poetry circles. It wouldn't be...

August 09, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 2: The Christianity of Camus

Albert Camus was nearly as unfaithful as Jean-Paul Sartre . . . to atheism. This should...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 2: The Christianity of Camus

Albert Camus was nearly as unfaithful as Jean-Paul Sartre . . . to atheism. This...

June 28, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists: Sartre's Crossover

Almost everyone will agree that Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is rightfully recognized as a major figure...

June 27, 2013

Debunking Science & Religion Myths: The Copernican Revolution Wasn't a Demotion

The science and religion debates are chock-full of ideological myths. Nowadays the scientific side usually...

June 13, 2013

Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy as a Way of Life

In De praescriptione, vii Tertullian asks, What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there...

June 09, 2013

The Problem of the Good (not Evil) or: On Rabelaisian Catholicism

The Charles Ramsey story went from viral to vile very quickly. The rescuer of three...