How the Enlightenment blinded us
Alasdair MacIntyre on the dependence of rationality on a lived tradition
It takes a character (and a village)
Herbert McCabe, O.P. on the Aristotelian, Thomistic, and MacIntyrean account of the moral life
Awakening before what is great
Romano Guardini on the proper posture of one in the presence of greatness
Learning from experience
Flannery O’Connor on belief and experience
Hillbilly Augustinian
Ralph Wood on Flannery O'Connor’s refusal to adapt her fiction to the national temper
The grotesque and the transcendent
Christina Bieber Lake on why Flannery O’Connor’s readers have to work
Excluding cranks and dabblers
Drusilla Scott on Michael Polanyi’s insistence that the “community of science” required authority
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