Matt Dinan is an Associate Professor in the Great Books Program at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Ravelstein is not simply a reactionary call to return to characteristically premodern ways of life.
Being mean is not the same as being cruel, but meanness can become cruelty.
Because you don’t need friends, and they don’t need you, you must seek them out.
Why precisely are the most fortunate of us the most restless? How can our private, individual restlessness explain our public, political sclerosis?
Hunting after the “hidden life of learning,” Zena Hitz defends learning for its own sake.
Modernity needs to be revealed to us, because it so successfully hides its true character, insulating itself against revision and correction.
It is hard to sustain the illusion that there is anything good about winter after the hundredth day or so.
What does it mean to like something "ironically"?
It perhaps goes without saying that the person with greatness of soul is not a great party guest.
I don’t think Aristotle is our enemy. I consider him a friend.
Anxiety teaches nothing but possibility, but I, at least, am a finite being.