Having an intellectually sound opinion about virtue or manliness isn’t enough. We need to be able to live out these truths within our communities.
Scott Beauchamp
Michael Walsh examines the pre-modern world of war and its forgotten virtues.
C. S. Lewis's Spirits in Bondage is a collection of his pre-Christian poetry about war, anger, and love.
Engelhart has created a well-researched account of people who exist at the very periphery of both the medical and legal world of state-sanctioned suicide.
Abraham Heschel, uttered weighty verities in so nearly a perfect prophetic diction that they might have been speaking from within Babylonian captivity.
J.K. Rowling believes the same things most people do, and this is the source of her strength as a writer.
It’s far easier to acquire data than wisdom.
Cold War theorists reconfigured democracy as an instrumental device used to secure private goods, with consequences that echo today.
Reality is too rich to allow itself to be perfectly captured in any rendering, model, or experiment.
If much of T.S. Eliot's work expresses a tragic sense of cosmic homelessness, just as much anticipates a reconciliation with our origins.
In Old House of Fear, Russell Kirk helps us realize the contrast between the anodyne and the supernatural—and through this, moral truth.
Through the spiritually rich but physically impoverished lives of the Copts, we’re offered a glimpse of our own society’s much more profound destitution.
An Amazon show that offers a glimpse into the nature of our recent wars—shadowy, ambiguous, and fraught with tension—and asks: What should we remember?
One suspects true radicals wouldn’t seek out the university at all but cultivate a learning community outside of it.
Prolific Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han offers unexpected insights into technological modernity.
Syfy's Channel Zero refines the "creepypasta," genre, offering us insights Americans' collective anxieties about community, technology, & family.
Ryan Alford's Permanent State of Emergency sheds light on the post 9/11 national security state, but misses key opportunities to think about liberty.
Scott Beauchamp is the author of the book Did You Kill Anyone? as well as numerous essays for outlets such as American Affairs, Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, and the Paris Review Daily.