If Black Catholics—having lived through repeated disappointments and the demoralizing treatment of their ancestors—are exhausted in the fight, now is the perfect time to find new strength and take heed of history as the Church changes all around them.

Nate Tinner-Williams carves out a space for Black Catholicism

The most compelling alternative to the twin perils of genealogy and fideism, radical immanence and radical transcendence, involves a hermeneutics of tradition.

Thomas Pfau develops a Christian Hermeneutics of Tradition

Contrary to Foucault’s account of genealogy, Nietzsche characterizes his enterprise as the discovery of the true (singular) origin of intellectual and cultural phenomena. Genealogy, in his disparaging account, gets it wrong.

Ryan McDermott develops an answer to the question: what is genealogy?

Karoline von Günderrode’s contributions to the history of ideas have been occluded and forgotten. When she wrote, women’s intellectual efforts went unacknowledged, meaning that we may never know the extent of her influence on the people around her.

Anna Ezekial recovers the philosophical insights of Günderrode

“To apprehend the point of intersection of the timeless with time is the occupation of the saint.” -T.S. Eliot

A video conversation between Thomas Pfau, Brenna Moore, Cyril O’Regan, and Maria Cecilia Ulrickson

By reaching back to Venerable Bede’s description of righteous conquest, Mather casts American origins as something deeply rooted in time and tradition—an inheritance that cannot be revoked.

M. Breann Leake on continuity from Venerable Bede to Cotton Mather

By observing the patterns in history and finding the hidden unity behind them, we can formulate ideals and new futures based on a better understanding of what humanity is.

Henriikka Hannula develops Dilthey’s philosophy for life.

The rediscovery of neglected texts has made it increasingly clear that women have always done philosophy, even where this work has been obstructed, lost, forgotten, or misattributed.

Anna Ezekiel on the excision of women from philosophical memory

This year, I’ve decided to take a new approach to Christmas gift-giving—one inspired by the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca.

J. LaRae Cherukara goes Christmas shopping with Seneca.

Why excommunicate these leggy litigants who had never been communicated? Whose chirps of defense fall on unwitting human ears?

Maggie Slaughter on grasshoppers

Philosophy cannot be reliably quarantined from the reign of theology, for any reflection on being necessitates reflection on the eternal source of all being

Katherine Apostolacus follows Edith Stein through phenomenology into theology

Growing dependence on technology allows the kind of independence the modern person craves: self-willed autonomy.

Catherine Yanko reads Romano Guardini during our digital lock-down

While the ancients may have had the science wrong, the reality of the experience to which they referred by the “Gorgon effect” still rings true today.

J. Larae Cherukara revaluates forgotten theories of optics

As I stand in this virescent orchard of hope, looking at those who have lain their truths in its roots, it seems to matter little that boys urinated here, dogs died there, or garbage litters the organic horizon of peat.

Maggie Slaughter on sacred trees and wishing wells.

The language all of these “pagans” use, and every other Western reaction against Christianity, remains Christian. Perhaps we don’t escape our history after all.

Micah Meadowcroft reviews Tara Isabella Burton’s Strange Rites.

What O’Regan emphasizes for Christian genealogy is the work of memory. We all too easily forget; we are all tempted by misremembering. We must keep vigil for the return of our Master.

Terence Sweeney reviews Exorcising Philosophical Modernity.

By understanding phenomenology first and foremost as possibility, it is possible to recover its capacity for converting us to the real.

Humberto González Núñez reviews Edward Baring’s Converts to the Real.

The paradox of theodicy is that the truly memorable parts are not the resolutions but the unresolved tensions that no literary narrative or philosophical formulation can fully address.

Chris Fite on the theodicy of comic-book universes.

“Far better for a true philosopher to admit that our ordinary way of thinking is not only rational, but actually more rational because more complete.”

David P. Deavel writes on John Henry Newman’s understanding of certitude.

If people choose to go on speaking nonsense, that’s just part of the game. What ‘One True Life’ offers is an invitation to play a different one, the stakes of which could not be higher.

Taylor Ross reviews One True Life and finds we must change our lives.