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Aquinas on St. Paul’s correction of St. Peter
A pope speaks ex cathedra when he presents some teaching in a formal and definitive manner that is intended infallibly to settle debate about it once and for all. This is an exercise of what is called...
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Countering disinformation about Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has over the last two years been a topic of enormous controversy. But what is it, exactly? Chapter 4 of my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and...
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Plato on democracy and tyranny
Over at Twitter, I posted a long thread of passages from Plato’s Republicsetting out his account of how a democratic society’s fixation on liberty and equality yields the tyrannical soul. You can read...
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What is classical theism?
My essay “What is Classical Theism?” is among those that appear in the volume Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God, edited by Jonathan Fuqua and Robert C. Koons and forthcoming from...
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Individualism and socialism versus the family
Here’s another unpublished lecture the text of which I’ve posted at my main website. The title is “Socialism versus the Family,” and I presented it at the Heritage Foundation back in February of 2019....
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Libertarianism, jazz, and Critical Race Theory
I was recently interviewed by Thomas Mirus for the Catholic Culture podcast. The discussion was pretty wide ranging, covering topics as diverse as libertarianism, the aesthetics of the music of...
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Perfect world disorder
My essay “Perfect World Disorder” appears today at The Postliberal Order. You can read it here (though a subscription is required in order to read the whole thing). Good time to subscribe!
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Talking about All One in Christ
Some recent interviews about my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory: A print interview conducted by Carl Olson appears today at Catholic World Report. A few...
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Perfect world disorder (sans paywall)
You can now read my recent Postliberal Order essay “Perfect World Disorder” without a subscription.
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Chomsky on consciousness
On the podcast Mind Chat, philosophers Philip Goff and Keith Frankish discuss the philosophical problem of consciousness with Noam Chomsky. Goff is a proponent of panpsychism and Frankish of...
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Aquinas on the sin of rash judgment
Christ famously taught: “Judge not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1). As Aquinas points out, Christ by no means intended to rule out all judgments about another person’s actions or character....
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The error and condemnation of Pope Honorius
A pope is said to speak ex cathedra or “from the chair” when he solemnly puts forward some teaching in a manner intended to be definitive and absolutely binding. This is also known as an exercise of...
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Can Pope Honorius be defended?
My recent article on the error and condemnation of Pope Honorius has gotten a lot of feedback both here and at Twitter (much of the latter surprisingly civil and constructive for that venue). Because...
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The latest on All One in Christ
Here are the latest reviews of my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory. Casey Chalk kindly reviews the book at The Spectator World. From the review:Feser’s...
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Divine freedom and heresy
I commend to you Fr. James Dominic Rooney’s excellent recent Church Life Journal article “The Incoherencies of Hard Universalism.” It is directed primarily at David Bentley Hart’s defense of...
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It’s an overdue open thread
We’re long overdue for an open thread, so here it is. Now you can post that otherwise off-topic comment that I deleted three days, three weeks, or three months ago. Feel free to talk about whatever...
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Divine freedom and necessity
In a recent article, I commented on Fr. James Dominic Rooney’s critiqueof David Bentley Hart. My focus was, specifically, on Fr. Rooney’s objections to Hart’s view that God’s creation of the world...
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The teleological foundations of human rights
My essay “The Teleological Foundations of Human Rights” appears in The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights, edited by Tom Angier, Iain Benson, and Mark Retter and out this month. Here’s...
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All One in Christ at Beliefnet
Recently I was interviewed at length by John W. Kennedy at Beliefnet about my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory. Earlier reviews of and interviews about...
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Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part VII: The influence of Kant
Immanuel Kant was, of course, not an atheist. So why devote an entry to him in this series, thereby lumping him in with the likes of Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, Marx, Woody Allen, and Schopenhauer? In...
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