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March 9, 2020|Analytic Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, phenomenology, Scott Soames

Has Philosophy Lost Its Way?

by Brendan Patrick Purdy|

Scott Soames demonstrates how analytical philosophy shaped our world, but slights phenomenology and religion.

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 14, 2018|Aurel Kolnai, phenomenology, Scottish Enlightenment

Of Nobility and Modernity: The Thought of Aurel Kolnai

by Graham McAleer|

Aurel Kolnai
Populism is shot through with the search for nobility, whether in farm animals, vegetables, cakes, sneakers, hubs and engines, or human talents.

July 18, 2016|Facebook, gender identity, Oxford English Dictionary, phenomenology, Transgenderism

Grammar Bender

by Molly Brigid McGrath|

Grammar has consequences. My grade school still taught, in the 1980s, that words have gender; people have sex. For decades, grammar nerds have bristled at official forms asking whether their “gender” is male or female. It’s like being asked, “What’s your part of speech?”

Somewhere along the line “gender” became a polite substitute for “sex” (perhaps to reduce snickers from adolescent boys). But with sex, gender, and the difference between them now playing into legal and public policy decisions, the confusion of these words means we can barely state the issue. Our gender trouble begins with grammar trouble.

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Book Reviews

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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