As Benjamin Franklin, the sage and senior member of our constitutional convention, was leaving its final session, a woman called […]
Reflections on “Faith Seeking Understanding”
I am not sure when this concept of “faith seeking understanding” entered my life, but I can
testify that reflection on it has proved very fruitful.
Confession of a Rover Agnostic
Dear readers, it was worse than agnosticism. I was more than skeptical about the Irish Rover’s future. I was a […]
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
In 1787 when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention completed their work and as they filed out of the building […]
Polarization and Political Philosophy
How a deep education can help overcome political division What has polarization to do with philosophy? Philosophy is, in the […]
Crafting a Compromise
DACA and border security
The Awesome Virtues
Professor Walter Nicgorski explores what virtue is as well as its major types
Education Toward Consensus
As was widely noted over the past year, what is sometimes called “the conservative movement” was strongly divided about Donald […]
Rediscovering the Carrolls
I recently took special notice of one of the museum cases in Notre Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart. This […]