“When are we?” asks James K. A. Smith
The philosopher diagnoses the temporal tone deafness of Christians, our inability to attend to time.
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Joseph de Maistre’s magnum opus is still perplexing after 200 years
Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg has often been dismissed as propaganda. It isn’t.
Action without agency
A philosophy professor races through a (predetermined?) action plot
A chaplain, his cerebral palsy, and the philosophy that guides him
Stephen Faller’s series of wise reflections on being alive
The Berggruen Institute called her “one of the world’s leading public philosophers.”
The comedy series doesn’t feel didactic—despite the fact that it features actual moral philosophy lessons.
Laurent Binet's latest novel is at once a lecture, a detective story, and an exploration of the limits of fiction.
Pascal knew both the inconstancy of the human heart and the promise that we were made for glory.
The many colors of betrayal
When does compromise descend into treason or apostasy?
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Are open borders the most ethical approach to immigration?
David Miller’s book doesn’t offer policy solutions. It does help us think clearly.
Why we need anger
Martha Nussbaum says we don't. She's wrong.
“Truth is in constant transit. The difference between a liberal and a conservative, I think, is the stomach you have for the journey.”
The Deepest Human Life, by Scott Samuelson
The Deepest Human Life is an elegantly written, impassioned, and sometimes disjointed plea on behalf of philosophy. Scott Samuelson invokes poets, novelists, and theologians to defend the dialectical process that Socrates imparted.
It happens all the time: I’m reading a beautiful piece of theology, and while the thinker is waxing on elegantly about God and man, he barrels in on the subject of women or Jewish people, and suddenly I’m hit by a barrage of nastiness.