I recently read Zena Hitz's book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton, 2020). I highly recommend it....

Sometimes I think that a saint is someone who is capable of loving a hat more than I currently love anything. You get to a strange...

When I hear the words "creation" and even "creationism," I don't usually think of the old debates about "creation vs evolution." Instead...

Sometimes the good life demands sacrifice. It is written, Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends....

What it means for a virtue to regulate an appetite has nothing to do with diminishing appetite as such. It has to do with ordering an...

Yes. My friend, Scott Williams, has put together an excellent book bringing the academic field of disability studies into dialogue with...

What is left for the cold grey soul That moans like a wounded dove? One wine is left in the broken bowl 'Tis, to love, and love, and...

Here is an audio file of some commentary I gave on Charles Williams' novel, The Place of the Lion. I originally recorded this for my...

Philosophy is an activity and all activities aim at the good. What good does Philosophy aim at? Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding. These...

What is it like to do philosophy? Here is an image. Imagine a rock on a calm sandy beach. The waves slowly wash up, caressing the rock,...

By the practice of gratitude I mean a lot more than observing all rules of etiquette about when and how to express gratitude to another...

The Scythians fight by flying. This is what Socrates tells us, anyway, in Plato’s Laches. He asks Laches himself what courage is, and...

I have a new paper out today, "A Most Mitigated Friar: Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom." It shows how Scotus reconciles the...

Bernard Williams has a famous paper, "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality." I've been studying the paper and...