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May 2017

May 29, 2017

How is Classical Philosophy is Like War?

Emmanuel Levinas, the father of personalist-oriented phenomenology, reminds us that war is the model for...

May 26, 2017

Why Does the World’s Leading Philosopher Remain a Catholic?

Catholic triumphalism isn't much in fashion these days, but Jean-Luc Marion bucks the trends.

February 2017

February 07, 2017

What Does Greek Philosopher Socrates Have to do with the Christian Saints?

The old question from Tertullian's Prescription Against the Heretics is "What does Athens have...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

The Good = Evil + Time

[E]vil is a moment in the temporalized unfolding of the good. --John Panteleimon Manoussakis, The...

January 22, 2017

St. Paul’s First Letter to the Catholics

Today's second reading is 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17: I urge you, brothers and sisters, in...

January 18, 2017

Have You Tried Shutting Up?

It is better to remain silent and to be than to talk and not be....

January 11, 2017

Zygmunt Bauman Goes to Eternity from Liquid Modernity

Caillebot's painting above is significant to me because in and through its simplicity the painting evokes a world of...

December 2016

December 11, 2016

TOP10 Booklist: What Theology, Science & Philosophy Should Be Under Your Christmas Tree?

Theology buffs have more of a Christmas gift dilemma than science and philosophy readers. The...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Don’t Look to Secularism if You Want to Bathe in a Kinder, Gentler World

The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is...

August 19, 2016

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing of Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils

I have reached a point of exhaustion with politics, just as any respectably abnormal person should. The...

August 18, 2016

TOP10 Books for Explaining Original Sin to Interested Nonbelievers

I am merely trying to say that there is a cultural danger inherent in any...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

TOP 10 Books on the Ecstatic Pessimism of the Polish Soul

As a former university instructor I cannot help wondering what books I would've assigned to...

July 04, 2016

Does America Have a Philosophical Soul?

My brother introduced me to the Old Crow Medicine Show perhaps a dozen years ago,...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

Philosopher Martin Heidegger is so Catholic he’s Publishing from Purgatory

The philosopher Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th century. He...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

Postmodernist Lacan Proclaims the Triumph of the One, True, Catholic Religion

It is the right time to unveil this bombshell on the day when one of...

April 13, 2016

TOP10 Book Challenge: Books About the Meaning of Life for Undergrads

I'm a little sheepish about publishing book lists, even though my readers frequently tell me...

April 12, 2016

On Atheism: Imagine someone knocks on your door & says to you, ‘‘I have experienced God.’’

Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Who Needs ISIS When Western Intellectuals Advocate Killing Newborns?

The threat of ISIS to Western Civilization is overblown. The Syrian conflict and its consequences...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

The Cosmos TOP10 Non-Fiction Books of 2015

The year is nearly done, kaput, fin and therefore it is time to take stock...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

The Jonah Paradox: Is Humanity Living on Borrowed Time?

The Jonah Paradox, as conceived in Dupuy's The Mark of the Sacred, is the existential mission...

November 13, 2015

Is the Higher Education Turboencabulator Fixable?

Higher education is broken. Nobody knows this better than people within humanities departments. This is...

November 07, 2015

From Ancient Philosophy to Christian Wisdom

The relationship of early Christian theology to philosophy is near and dear to me. I...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

TOP10 Books on Religion and Ecology

I have put together this list as a distraction, or better yet, a refocusing of...

October 28, 2015

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheist: Sartre Eulogizes Merleau-Ponty

The "Famous Atheists" series is devoted to exposing prominent thinkers (Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Irigaray), artists...

October 21, 2015

Against the Defense of Christendom

A Wall Street Journal piece by Bret Stephens, In Defense of Christendom, is unfortunately making...

October 15, 2015

Ocean Symphony, Breeze, & a Liturgy: Sam Rocha’s Folk Interview

Sam Rocha is my dear friend. Besides that he is also Assistant Professor of Philosophy...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

A Book to Pick Up, Read, & Survive (Even When You Don’t Thrive)

Justin Tse writes about reading as a survival tactic: Let me finish, then, on a...

September 21, 2015

The Bothersome Man’s Search for Meaning

Books are not only bibliography fodder. They are also fodder for life. Sometimes books even...

September 18, 2015

Anatheism: The Hospitality Before Theism and Atheism

I confess that my post on the White House guest list was a failed experiment...

September 16, 2015

Zygmunt Bauman: From Liquid Modernity to Theology

Today was a busy day, so this post will come quickly, late, and in some...