The Guild Review

Although most commemorations of the jolly old elf, at least in the US, are past, the Church continues to celebrate Christmas. In that spi...

In The Worker Jünger makes three key points about technology. Before going any further, however, I should add that while I disagree with J...

It is impossible to discuss the life and thought of Ernst Jünger briefly. Nearly 103 years old when he died in 1998, Jünger led an eventful ...

Earlier this year I read R. G. Collingwood's The Idea of History . The book is quite insightful, a "must read" for any phi...

One of the "problems" with a UD education is that the UD graduate likes to use certain "fancy" words that not many other...

A friend recently directed my attention to the 20th chapter of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra , which pertains to marriage...

I have been known to write about Christian political mythology before. The whole notion might be considered problematic for a number of re...

The Great Books are not the solution to the problems of higher education in this country. In fact, the Great Books are enemies of wisdom. Ho...

Thanksgiving will be here in just a few days and many of us will find ourselves sharing with family and friends those things for which we ar...

The St. Thomas law school recently hosted Robert P. George , fellow at Princeton and natural law theorist, to receive the Humanae Dignitatis...

Murder mysteries can be fiendishly difficult things to unravel. However, there are certain assumptions we often take for granted: the laws ...

One day, while eating lunch at the National Archives (pictured left), I heard the next table over discussing the Bible. My ears immediately...

Much has been written about the way that reading is quickly changing in the internet age. Consider, for example, a fairly standard internet...

In section 26 of Caritas in veritate , Benedict XVI describes two dangers facing the modern world, modes of thinking which "separat[e] ...

I must confess: I am not a philosopher. Neither am I a literary theorist. But a couple months ago I was reading this review of a collecti...

At the end of his post on the movie Pi , Aaron briefly mentions agnosticism, and suggests that most self-declared agnostics have simply neve...

We recently lost the internet at my house for several days. One realizes just how much it has become a part of everyday life when it is gon...

Truth is a strange thing. In spite of using the word all the time, it is easy to forget just what it is, or that it exists at all. Too oft...

I wanted to give a special shout out to a pair of new contributors who will be joining our blogging team. As the About This Blog section say...

A while back I was reading a blog post and got to thinking about how we, as Christians, view the world. Is this life a place of exile or a ...