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
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