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July 2015

July 23, 2015

To Love This Poor Perishable World

The challenge of putting down roots.

March 2015

March 19, 2015

Who Supports Big Government Regulation of the Market, Whatever the Cost? Pro-Life Activists.

There is a matter on which many political conservatives support government regulation of markets and...

March 17, 2015

Contrary to Market Ideology, People Often Don’t Follow Economic Incentives

People act against the good of others even when it hurts their business. That's human...

March 10, 2015

What the Church Allows Isn’t Necessarily Right

Debates among Catholics about moral issues too often rely on a cursory analysis of Magisterial...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Teaching Your Children the Faith Doesn’t Mean Indoctrinating Them

Richard Dawkins himself cannot escape some religious instruction because he’s situated in a society formed...

February 24, 2015

Michael Novak, Still Defending the Iraq War

If you launch into a moral defense of a war without reckoning with the dead,...

February 12, 2015

Resisting the Church

With respect to the truth, resisting the Church is a risky damned if you do,...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Radical Dependency: A Newborn’s and Our Own

What if, instead of glorifying the autonomous individual and demeaning the poor and dependent, we...

January 02, 2015

All Philosophy Is Contextual, So Every Philosopher Must Be Read in Context

However immaculate their logic, however focused they are on the pursuit of truth--philosophers reason in...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Deriving Morals, Laws, and Policy Ideas from the Bible

The conflict of interpretations is hardly unique to the Bible or to religion. People simply...

December 17, 2014

Thomas Sowell Wants You to Disregard Moral Principles When American Security Is at Stake

Sowell has an ethics here--it's an ethics based on fear, fantasy, deference to military power,...

December 16, 2014

Torture Is Who We Are

Torture and its justification are part of our American heritage. America too could have crucified...

December 12, 2014

The Purpose of Private Property

Catholicism understands and judges the ownership of private property with respect to its social function,...

December 11, 2014

Blaming Pacifism for Our Embrace of Torture? Are You Serious?

With apparently no worthier individuals or ideologies to blame for widespread acceptance of torture, Matthew...

December 10, 2014

Should Christians Still Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?

The United States of America receives no special graces or blessings that keep it mostly...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Pacifism isn’t sensible, but then neither is the Christian life

To be Christian means to be willing to sacrifice everything, even one's country, for the...

November 14, 2014

Derrida, Heidegger, and the Bible Speak

Do Derrida, Heidegger, and the Bible say something similar about our relationship to language?

November 13, 2014

Dietrich von Hildebrand against the Nazis: An Interview with John Henry Crosby

I interviewed John Henry Crosby about his translation of 'My Battle against Hitler,' a collection...

November 06, 2014

Losing Control of the Church

What does Cardinal Burke's image of the church as a rudderless ship tells us about...

November 04, 2014

Election Day Thought: Michel Foucault on Regimes of Truth

"Each society has its regime of truth, its 'general politics' of truth: that is, the...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

How Evolution Challenges the Basis of Christian Ethics

If human nature can vary and evolve, then the basis of the good can vary...

October 21, 2014

Critical Dogmatism

The world informs the church's understanding of the faith and the faith illuminates its understanding...

October 17, 2014

The Possibility of Pretend Infallibility

Accepting revelation means trusting the individuals who claimed to have received revelation and the individuals...