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Rémi Brague’s bracing critique of modernity’s low-rent logos

February 12, 2020 Richard M. Reinsch II 6

In Curing Mad Truths, French philosopher Rémi Brague argues that the modern world is dying because it cannot answer the question of why it should live. To answer that question will require humility, according to […]

Essay

Catholic universities, contemplation, and our cultural future

April 22, 2019 Joseph G. Trabbic 10

For better or for worse, universities are shapers of culture, not the only ones, of course, but decisive ones. The reason for this isn’t mysterious. Most of our cultural elites – the people in the […]

Analysis

Camille Paglia, Plato, and the paradox of freedom

December 13, 2018 Vivian Dudro 14

Camille Paglia is an enigma. Identifying more with males than females since childhood, Paglia calls herself trans; yet she rejects a key false assumption of transgender ideology: “The cold biological truth is that sex changes […]

General

On human dignity and the death penalty

August 16, 2018 James V. Schall, S.J. 2

Whether human dignity is upheld if we allow no executions remains an open question. As Plato intimated, a case for the execution of certain criminals […]

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Pascal’s Wager, certitude and doubt, and the human condition

July 13, 2018 Carl E. Olson 5

“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 […]

Books

Does liberalism deserve to be saved?

June 28, 2018 Nathanael Blake 8

Patrick Deneen asserts that the natural endpoint of liberalism is desire rampant and tyrannical, while Jonah Goldberg argues that these outcomes are not liberalism, but […]

Columns

The Plain Truth: Leon Kass on just about everything

May 31, 2018 James V. Schall, S.J. 2

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 […]

Features

Fr. Thomas Reese’s quixotic, irrational battle with Greek philosophy

January 11, 2018 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 20

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 […]

Columns

On the purpose of politics and the salvation of souls

January 11, 2018 James V. Schall, S.J. 6

The ultimate purpose of Christian revelation was not to improve the world but to explain the final destiny of each existing person. The purpose of […]

The Dispatch

Seeing the meaning of sports in a regime of politicization

October 8, 2017 Brian Jones 10

The fact and givenness of a game’s nature is good in itself. It is an affirmation that this reality exists—but does not need to. […]

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