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September 2015

September 07, 2015

The Anxiety of the Freshly Unemployed Man on Labor Day

Our economy is moving toward becoming a contract economy, also known as a "gig economy."...

June 2015

June 03, 2015

Why am I Still a Catholic? What Else is There?

The Patheos Catholic channel is doing a roundup of members defending their faith. This is...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Percy on Mental Hygiene: You Are Entitled to Your Depression

Octorber 5-11 was mental health week. You probably heard it mentioned on any of the...

October 02, 2014

Walker Percy Fan Delivers Jefferson Lecture on Uncle Walker!

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the famous Walker Percy Jefferson Lecture "The San...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Ruined by Books: My TOP10 Novel List

Thinking through betrayal reminded me of Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers. It's one of those...

March 2014

March 19, 2014

Walker Percy on the College Dorm Arguments of Sagan and deGrasse Tyson

There is an extended footnote in Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

Percy's Cosmos, Dolan's Babylonian Captivity, and Kojeve's Last Man

Pope Francis has an uncanny ability to make the Gospel scandalous. There isn't enough space...

January 05, 2014

Lost in the Environment (Rather than Cosmos) of Commercialism

Lost in the Cosmos is one of those books that you immediately like, even if...

January 04, 2014

Subversive Orthodoxy Meets the Libertarian Preferential Option for the Rich

The writing of the last series of post has got me thinking about what I...

December 2013

December 11, 2013

The Strangest Thing in the Cosmos: Walker Percy

Communion and Liberation is a movement that's been close to the heart of the last...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

The Eviscerated Public Square

When you accumulate books there is always that one which you've meant to read for...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Considerations for a (Violent &) Secular Age

I've been working on yet another translation of a Dariusz Karłowicz text. This time it's...

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 10, 2013

Confession: How I Lost My Faith After Reading Rachel Held Evans

I'm around 35 (!) and I can't say whether I qualify as millennial. But fear...

June 2013

June 11, 2013

Czesław Miłosz | To Raja Rao

TO RAJA RAO Czesław Miłosz Raja, I wish I knew the cause of that malady....