Seeing the world from somewhere
Robert Spaemann on why education can’t be “objective”
Keeping “the good” in the common good
D. C. Schindler on the metaphysical character of real community
Leaders with management skills (but no virtues)
Philip Turner on viewing authority as mere conflict management
Creation’s gift to the sciences
Michael Hanby: “There is no pure method, and no science can do and indeed ever does without a metaphysics and therefore ultimately a theology.”
Imagining our selves in the image of our devices
What are we? What makes a human intelligent? What is consciousness, knowledge, learning? Ellen Ullman ponders.
Stanley Hauerwas on the modern idea of freedom
Stanley Hauerwas: “Protestant churches in America lost the ability to maintain the disciplines necessary to sustain a people capable of being an alternative to the world.”
Before and after economics
Mark Mitchell: “The ideology of economics is a way of seeing the world. It forces reality into a preconceived structure and subsequently deigns to rule this truncated world with all the authority of science.”
Digital equality and the untuning of the world
Lee Siegel analyzes how web-based pursuits of unique identity is so unbounded that personal definition becomes impossible.
A devilish temptation
Wendell Berry explains how the modern Western ideal of the sovereign self enshrines a story of the abandonment of restrictions and restraints in the name of human freedom.
Liberalism and limits
On his blog, What I Saw in America, political theorist Patrick Deneen often questions some of the fundamental assumptions of classic liberalism, assumptions which contradict the wisdom of premodern political thinkers.