I’ve been trying to think of even a single advantage that ChatGPT affords us in the education of our children. I’m still trying, and cannot as of yet see much more in it beyond what Chomsky has called a high-tech “plagiarizing system.”

When it comes to creativity, there is virtue, and always will be, in the decision to—as Wittgenstein put it—“go the bloody hard way.”

Alasdair MacIntyre on "the importance for the moral philosopher of living on the margins, intellectually as well as politically, a necessary condition for being able to see things as they are." churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/on-ha…

Found this beautiful 1957 copy last year in the storage room of an old Ursuline convent (now converted into a small, Catholic college). Fun to imagine the sisters, sitting with coffees around a table, mining the depths of such books together in community.

Why not a pope-moped?

Excellent talk from Gyula Klima for Thomistic Institute: podcast.thomisticinstitute.org/what-can-we-le…

A long anticipated arrival! This, I expect, will be a major source for my upcoming book on Catholicism and the body.

A great man, philosopher, and teacher has left us. And he has left us with much. RIP Alasdair MacIntyre.

Highly recommend this new podcast hosted by my pal and former colleague Dr. Jared Zimmerer and his present colleague at Benedictine College JDMadden

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Three Stanford academics propose the engineering of living human “bodyoids” for scientific and medical use. My thoughts Catholic World Report: catholicworldreport.com/2025/05/30/the…

Looking for nonpharmacologic treatment for low back pain? This article from the VA shows that chiropractic care can reduce opioid initiation! #backpain #chiropractor #alternativemedicine Read here to learn more: buff.ly/eH8XvhI

My recent piece in Catholic World Report looked at a recent proposal in the MIT Technology Review concerning the production of "ethically sourced" unconscious living human bodies for scientific and biomedical purposes. Many have pointed out to me since then that Kazuo Ishiguro's

Please no.

In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these

It’s been a good mail day!

“Cheap men need expensive jigs; expensive men need only the tools in the toolbox.” —Matthew B. Crawford

This is an excellent volume, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to find a synthesis between the analytic and Thomist schools of thought.

Merry Christmas to all! “Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.” —GK Chesterton