The Dispatch
Fides et ratio: An encyclical even more relevant today than it was in 1998
The philosophical currents that troubled John Paul II two decades ago and moved him to write Fides et ratio haven’t disappeared. […]
Philosophy
The Dispatch
“The story of philosophy is important because it’s humanity’s story”
Renowned philosopher and author Peter Kreeft has written a new, four-volume history of philosophy entitled Socrates’ Children. The four volumes span thousands of years, from the ancient world through to today (the four volumes are: […]
Features
The Godzilla Option
“You’re a monster!” screams Madison Russell (played by Millie Bobby Brown) in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. She screams this at her mother, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), who has just made the decision to […]
Books
The Intelligibility of Reality and the Priority to Love
Near the beginning of D.C. Schindler’s important and impressive book Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Cascade Books, 2018), he quotes a prescient passage from G.K. Chesterton’s Heretics. Chesterton […]
Books
The Bland Inquisitor
While reading Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress I was comforted by the knowledge that I would be compensated for my opinion of it. Here it is: Don’t bother. Enlightenment […]
Features
Pascal’s Wager, certitude and doubt, and the human condition
“The wager,” says Thomas S. Hibbs, author of a new book on Pascal’s philosophy and faith, “demands a kind of self-transformation of one’s passions, a […]
Columns
The Plain Truth: Leon Kass on just about everything
Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times reveals that we have arrived at a point where what is actually anti-human is politically defined and […]
Columns
Philosophically knowing nothing but the truth about God
Dr. Edward Feser’s Five Proofs of the Existence of God’s lively approach demonstrates that natural theology’s funeral directors, despite all their bluster, will be buried […]
Features
Fr. Thomas Reese’s quixotic, irrational battle with Greek philosophy
The former editor of America magazine would do well to read Benedict XVI’s 2005 “Regensburg Address” and Vatican II’s documents on seminary training and Catholic […]
The Dispatch
“What a piece of work is man”: A review of Roger Scruton’s “On Human Nature”
Scruton’s book makes evident that in order to think correctly about the person we need to think less like liberals, and more like Aristotleans. Or better […]