Features

Fight, yes, but for what?

July 15, 2024 Dr. Edward Feser 98

It is impossible not to admire the resilience and fighting spirit with which Donald Trump responded—literally within moments—to the failed attempt to take his life. And that he is among the luckiest of politicians is […]

The Dispatch

The metaphysics of individualism

March 26, 2024 Dr. Edward Feser 6

Modern moral discourse often refers to “persons” and to “individuals” as if the notions were more or less interchangeable.  But that is not the case. In his book Three Reformers: Luther, Descartes, Rousseau (especially in chapter […]

Analysis

Lofton’s YouTube straw man

July 22, 2023 Dr. Edward Feser 105

There’s a popular mode of online intellectual discourse that I rather dislike, which might be labeled “the extended YouTube hot take.”  It involves a talking head riffing, for an hour or so, on something someone […]