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Postliberalism is not despotism
In a new article at Postliberal Order, I explain why, contrary to a common straw man, postliberalism does not entail despotism.
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Immortal Souls now available for pre-order
My new book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature is now available for pre-order in the U.S. at Amazon.com. Here again are the back cover copy, endorsements, and table of contents:Immortal Souls...
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Scruton on tradition
Roger Scruton’s essay “Rousseau and the Origins of Liberalism” first appeared in The New Criterion in 1998, and was reprinted in The Betrayal of Liberalism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball....
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Immortal Souls in eBook format
The paperback version of my new book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature sold out on Amazon within a day of being listed there. No word on when it will be back in stock, but I imagine it will...
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Hobbes and Kant on capital punishment
Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant both had an enormous formative influence on modern moral and political philosophy, and on liberalism in particular. But their approaches are very different. Hobbes...
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Rawls on religion
Though John Rawls wrote much that is of relevance to religion – and in particular, to the question of what influence it can properly have on politics (basically none, in Rawls’s view) – he wrote little...
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The future of the Magisterium
The latest issue of First Things features a symposium on the future of the Catholic Church, to which I contributed an article on the future of the Magisterium. You can read the entire symposium online...
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Fight, yes, but for what?
It is impossible not to admire the resilience and fighting spirit with which Donald Trump responded – literally within moments – to the failed attempt to take his life. And that he is among the...
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Readers who follow me on X (Twitter) will know of the intense debate occurring there over the last week between social conservatives critical of Trump’s gutting of the GOP platform and those defending...
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More on the GOP and social conservatism
For those not following me on X (Twitter), some posts from the last couple of days attempting further to clarify what is at issue, and at stake, in the debate over the direction of the GOP:
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Word on Fire Institute course
My six-part video course on Six Arguments for the Existence of God is available for free from the Word on Fire Institute. A short preview and sign-up information are available here. An interview...
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Damnation roundup
The reality of hell is the clear and infallible teaching of scripture and tradition. I would argue that even purely philosophical argumentation can establish that the soul that is in a state of...
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Trump has put social conservatives in a dilemma
Let’s begin with the obvious. No social conservative could possibly justify voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. They are pro-abortion extremists, as Ryan Anderson shows in an article on Harris at...
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Rawls’s liberal integralism
John Rawls’s political liberalism is no more neutral and no less religiously particular than a comprehensively Catholic society. I elaborate in “Political Liberalism and Rawlsian Religion,” my latest...
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The problem with the “hard problem”
Robert Lawrence Kuhn is well-known as the creator and host of the public television series Closer to Truth, an invaluable source of interviews with major contributors to a variety of contemporary...
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Trump: A buyer’s guide
In the weeks since I wrote on the dilemma that Donald Trump has put social conservatives in, the problem has only become far more pronounced. Trump has stated that a second Trump administration “will...
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The popesplainer’s safety dance
Pope Francis recently added yet another item to the long list of doctrinally problematic statements he has issued through the course of his pontificate. Commenting on the plurality of religions during...
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The new Aquinas 101
The Thomistic Institute has launched a new Aquinas 101 learning platform for its well-known and excellent series of videos. Check it out here. Press release and further information can be found here.
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The latest on Immortal Souls
Philosophers William Vallicella and Christopher Kaczor weigh in on my new book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature. At his blog, Bill writes: “Like all of Feser's books, Immortal Souls is a...
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Vinco on Feser in Philosophische Rundschau
German-speaking readers might be interested in Roberto Vinco’s article “Neo-Scholastic Metaphysics in the 21st Century: An Examination of the Perspective of Edward Feser,” in the latest issue of the...
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