Graham McAleer

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.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

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

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The World That Christianity Made

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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.

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The Wayfaring Soldiers of 1917

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

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

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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.

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Art’s Establishment

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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.

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Phenomenology’s Influence in the West

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

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Commercial Civilization, Apollonian or Dionysian?

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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.

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Universities: The Future of Policing?

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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?

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Fleecing the Bankers

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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.

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Anxious Trade

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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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