Houellebecq’s Christendom
I picked up a paperback copy of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Platform this spring because I wanted to tranquilize my infant son with a book that had breasts on the cover. There are, of course, […]
I picked up a paperback copy of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Platform this spring because I wanted to tranquilize my infant son with a book that had breasts on the cover. There are, of course, […]
There is an impromptu symposium on legitimacy, sovereignty, and the duty to obey the law over at the traditionalist Catholic blog The Josias, from Daniel Lendman, Felix de St. Vincent, and Elliot Milco. What […]
Kevin Williamson at National Review complained about a Catholic conference led by Cardinal Maradiaga called “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case against Libertarianism.” Williamson: The best that can be said of the clergy’s […]
In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall suggests that the horizon of original sin has perhaps not been transcended even by the most radical philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth […]
Happy 98th birthday, Walker Percy. Just like the great internecine American war, the battlegrounds of the “culture war” are for the most part located in the American South. What is […]
Marx or Locke? Nietzsche or Aristotle? Frederick Beiser gives us another opposition in his article “Hegel’s Historicism”. Burke or Hegel? Famously, Hegel’s historicism has both a conservative side and a […]
Nicholas Lash is peeved when God is referred to as “supernatural”. He clarifies the definition in a charming anecdote quoted by Tomáš Halík: If you come across a rabbit playing […]
In his 1844 “Critical Marginal Notes on ‘The King of Prussia and Social Reform’”, Karl Marx criticizes socialism as limited political activity. Marx conceived of a social revolution as involving […]
Tomáš Halík thinks Søren Kierkegaard is a crucial figure for seeing Christianity with a fresh gaze in our age of unbelief. Søren Kierkegaard, whom I regard as the first real prophet of […]
In Hegel Contra Sociology (1981), Gillian Rose takes Marx to task for not grasping Hegel: Marx did not appreciate the politics of Hegel’s presentation, the politics of a phenomenology [logic of […]