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This is a deeply informed, highly personal, at times funny, & beautiful remembrance of Alasdair MacIntyre by Charles Mathewes who spent some time in seminars with him. Wider secular media take note, Charles Mathewes knows his MacIntyre! for The Hedgehog Review hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…

Nice reminder that this 2017 video from The Onion is a timeless classic which did not become less relevant in 2024. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzVc7…

Not in law but this captures my own experiences and sentiments on academia pretty well.

As someone with a generalist outlook (so prone to pivoting), I see this as a bummer…but not really a surprise. Sometimes I get asked to review papers by people who, however smart and competent they might be, are clearly outsiders to my field, and it shows.

My ode to the late Alasdair MacIntyre just posted on The Tablet. I explain how his philosophy remained age-defying & urgent, showing a possible path out of the "moral wilderness." But his insight came from a constant, often painful ability to change 🧵 thetablet.co.uk/features/virtu…

It seems to be a general assumption these days that ours is a time of increasing ideological intensity and polarization. What this essay presupposes is...maybe it isn't?

Very nice reflections from my sister on the experience of taking classes from Alasdair MacIntyre. Though not the most poignant bit, I enjoy her likening of a philosophical spar with him to a rodeo, wherein the achievement lies in a longer time to defeat. lawliberty.org/macintyre-the-…

There’s more insight on the Christian right in this thread than in most of the academic literature of the past decade.

Though time is always a limiting factor, I've been gaining an appreciation for reading primary sources rather than imbibing their arguments from later commentary. Discovered today that JS Mill's "On Liberty" is an absolute banger, with subtleties the summaries don't capture.

Personally attacked.

High times for epistemology substacks! I'm fully on board. My mood lately is that a lot of the conflicts we characterize in terms of values, identities, etc., have a strong epistemological element and we should be more attentive to it. In which case, these ventures are valuable.

This is interesting. Tons of potential in using tools like this to study the (online) behavior of academics and other scrolling-addicted knowledge economy types.