The Just Third Way

Yesterday we looked at the problem of “pseudo virtue,” that is, something that gives someone a feeling of righteousness, but that i...

Yesterday we talked about the nature of truth.   That’s just a starting point, however.   Nowhere is the problem o...

Every now and then we get something from one of our readers that starts a train of thought, or forces us to clarify either our thoughts on ...

Does science prove natural law? Yes — but unfortunately last week we came across an article in which the author included supernatur...

Although summer (especially July) is typically a slow month around Washington, D.C., things seem to be picking up ...

Knowing our interest in explaining and promoting an Aristotelian-Thomist understanding of the natural law (the bas...

No, this isn’t a new television series review.   Maybe it should be, but it isn’t.   This is just a little dissert...

In this brief series we’ve again been looking at the issue of faith and reason.   As we’ve already known, the bottom line here ...

You know what the problem is with (other) people?   That’s right.   They. Just. Won’t. Do. What. I. Want. Them. To...

As the global economic, social, and political situation continues to worsen, it’s easy to come to the conclusion t...

So far we’ve stated the problem and summarized both the liberal and the conservative positions on the issue.   Today we look at...

Yesterday we summarized the liberal Catholic position.   Today we will summarize the conservative Catholic positio...

Yesterday we began a series on tradition, faith, and reason in government and organized religion.   We decided to ...

Last week we received an e-mail containing a link to an article in Crisis magazine by Dr. James Kalb, “ A Vindica...

The financial and political powers-that-be throughout the world remain baffled by the fact that you can’t get out ...

Despite all the baggage and misconceptions that have been loaded on to the term, we can look to the laws and chara...

In yesterday’s posting, we noted that we do not believe that it is a proper function of government to be engaging ...

One thing is painfully clear from all the brouhaha over the Export-Import (“Ex-Im”) Bank of the United States, a g...

Last week we looked at the questions Pope Francis has been raising, what to do in the short term about the increas...

Possibly because of the three-day weekend due to Independence Day falling on a Friday, there hasn’t been too much ...