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Graham McAleer is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. His latest book is Veneration & Refinement: The Ethics of Fashion, an open source web book found at www.ethicsoffashion.com.

March 2, 2020|Aquinas, Aristotle, Aurel Kolnai, Descartes, Enlightenment, Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law, James Bond, John Rawls, Kant

Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

by Graham McAleer|

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

February 12, 2020|Christianity, violence, Virtue, wokeness

The World That Christianity Made

by Graham McAleer|

Caravaggio, The Crucifixion of St. Peter (Wikipedia).
Holland is not a believer, but he does want the West, and the woke, to acknowledge their reliance on St. Paul’s belief that a crucified criminal was God.

January 17, 2020|1917, J.R.R. Tolkien, Somme, World War I

The Wayfaring Soldiers of 1917

by Graham McAleer|

A still from 1917.
This is a war going on until only one man stands, the viewer is reminded at the end.

January 10, 2020|Adam Smith, Albert Camus, Aurel Kolnai, Friedrich Hayek, Martin Heidegger, Populist Conservatism, R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods

Can the “Strong Gods” Breathe Life into the Barren West?

by Graham McAleer|

Great Hall Ballroom in Versailles Palace (vichie81 at shutterstock.com)
Reno assumes the alternative is between the weak loves of neo-liberalism and the strong loves of a revivified European conservativism.

December 12, 2019|art, design, Jennifer C. Lena, WPA

Art’s Establishment

by Graham McAleer|

Image from a 1930 Federal Theatre Project event. Image Credit: Federal Theater Project Collection Box 1213, Library of Congress
The contention that non-profit management and government funding expands the arts is hardly defensible.

October 28, 2019|Converts to the Real, Edmund Husserl, Edward Baring, phenomenology, Rene Descartes, Thomism

Phenomenology’s Influence in the West

by Graham McAleer|

Phenomenology has been just as important to Catholic theology as to philosophy.

June 28, 2019|Adam Smith, commercial society, Friedrich Nietzsche, Roger Callois

Commercial Civilization, Apollonian or Dionysian?

by Graham McAleer|

Trading floor at Chicago Board of Trade (Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com).
The economy is one big pantomime, one where the tension between Apollonian and Dionysian forces never quite gets resolved.

June 21, 2019|Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Private Policing

Universities: The Future of Policing?

by Graham McAleer|

Peabody Research Library at Johns Hopkins University (shutterstock.com)
Is Johns Hopkins University's creation of a private police force a harbinger that in America the future of policing isn't public?

April 25, 2019|Environmentalism, patagonia, Wall Street, woke capital

Fleecing the Bankers

by Graham McAleer|

Casey Wasserman, founder and chief executive officer of Wasserman Media Group LLC, left, and Jeff Wilpon, senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of the New York Mets, Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on July 6, 2016 (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images).
Patagonia produces bespoke fleece vests emblazoned with the names of America’s great financial houses, but now money isn't enough to procure them.

April 9, 2019|Arthur Melzer, Deirdre McCloskey, Markets, Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert P. George, Steven J. Kautz

Anxious Trade

by Graham McAleer|

Image: Katjen/Shutterstock.com
The problem for the boosters of capitalism is that its defenders seem unsure if its energy comes from desire or speech.
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A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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