Podcast: Walker Percy’s Faith And Crisis Of Self-Knowledge
Jennifer A. Frey, assistant philosophy professor, discusses understanding the struggles, novels, and desires of Southern writer Walker Percy.
Removing Confederate Statues Doesn’t Need To Be A Partisan Issue
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has written a book about the city’s decision to remove Confederate statues. It starts out well-intentioned, but ends up needlessly trying to score partisan political points.
How Atticus Finch Represents American Aristocracy
For any student of Southern Stoicism, it fits that Atticus Finch was a magnanimous defender of the black person’s rights in the 1930s yet an endorser of illegal responses to that person’s rights in the 1950s.
Technocracy Versus The Great Books
One of the great prejudices of our time is that direct information is king. But the great books offer another, more satisfying way to realize truth.
White Trash Religion In A Nutshell: Proud, Ignorant, And Messy
Not sending your children to Sunday school is worse for posterity than having a dead tractor in the front yard.