Grammar Bender
Grammar has consequences. My grade school still taught, in the 1980s, that words have gender; people have sex. For decades, grammar nerds have bristled at official forms…
Grammar has consequences. My grade school still taught, in the 1980s, that words have gender; people have sex. For decades, grammar nerds have bristled at official forms…
Give to love your hearth and hall. But do not give advice at all. -Phyllis McGinley The American election is steadily drawing closer, and our new…
A consistent defense of the uncivil rhetoric at the heart of the Trump campaign is an appeal to being politically incorrect. The idea is that liberal politicians…
Both Tocqueville and Weber confronted the injection of mass suffrage into the liberal democratic polity with trepidation and caution but for different reasons: for Tocqueville, democracy produced…
When we speak of democracy today, we really mean liberal democracy, a product of the Enlightenment and the philosophy of liberalism. The success of the modern sciences…
John P. Safranek, The Myth of Liberalism. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2015. Can a regime function in the absence of a conception of…
Sovereignty: Moral and Historical Perspectives. James Turner Johnson. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014. On August 7, 2014, the mood in Cambodia was filled with anticipation. …
At first glance the title of this chapter is bewildering. What can a “personalist account of persons” mean? Is it simply recognition of the respect we owe…
David Walsh's Politics of the Person A few years ago, I tried to work out a philosophical understanding of human origins, which involved not only up to…
Professor Walsh and I have entered into a conversation vis-a-vis his claim that the language of human rights is “an epiphany of the person” and performs this…
I am indebted to the careful and insightful reading that Macon Boczek has given to my book. Writing is a solitary occupation whereby one opens a conversation,…
Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being. David Walsh. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. David Walsh has written a wonderful…