How discovery happens
Esther Lightcap Meek on Michael Polanyi’s account of scientific discovery
Harbinger of disorder
Mark Mitchell on Michael Polanyi’s recognition of the dangerous dead-end of materialistic reductionism
Discipline and piety
Bishop Robert Barron on Aquinas, the man
St. Thomas the anthropologist
G. K. Chesterton on Aquinas’s complete Science of Man
The collaboration of bodies and minds
F. C. Copleston on Aquinas’s confidence in the embodied nature of knowledge
A brief for “prophetic Thomism”
David Decosimo on assuming a charitable posture toward pagan virtue
Coming unstuck from the earth
Henru de Lubac on how being heavenly minded makes one of immense earthly good
Self-transformation, American style
Jackson Lears on late-19th-century visions of rebirth
The con man vs. the self-made man
Jackson Lears on the ambivalence in American culture about chance and gambling
Misguided quests for well-being
Jackson Lears on why the culture of the therapeutic triumphed