Philosopher’s Notebook

The annual convention of the American Philosophical Association could rarely be described as a festive affair. Thousands of anxious philosophy professors descend on a hotel to give papers on obscure topics as graduate students grimly run the gantlet of hiring committees in a windowless ballroom tryi

Practitioners have become apologists for their beloved but apparently irrelevant fields.

With dramatic flair, the church in November urges us to pray for the dead as nature undergoes its annual decline.

This expanded intervention of the state weakens personal freedom.

The euthanasia juggernaut has become a campaign to eliminate the disabled.

Pope Francis’ outlook sharply diverges from that promoted by many prominent environmentalists.

Freddie Gray died on April 19 from spinal injuries sustained while he was in custody, being transported in a police van. Protests surrounding his death turned violent on the evening of April 25. The violence intensified on April 27, the day of Gray’s funeral, with a night of arson, looting and

Observers of the anti-Armenian campaign quickly noted its genocidal nature.

Suspicious of all political utopias, Ionesco rejected the efforts at a partisan recuperation of the drama.

At the center of the spiritual life is the simple courage to be quiet.