As Americans prepare to celebrate Christmas and begin the new year, it's worth reflecting on what Americans lost and gained ...

MacIntyre (1992): thanks to his work, few now doubt the importance of the tie that binds - Steve Pyke/Getty Images Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, who has died aged 96, was one of the most important ...

Famed ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre called upon academia and other Catholics and intellectuals to invest in the “expensive conversation” about justice, and to sharpen their understanding of what ...

Why should an ordinary Catholic care about what happens at a muckety-muck academic conference? It’s a fair question, and I expect it’s one that more than a few Catholics have asked when coming across ...

This has been around for three election cycles, but John Schwenkler revived it on his Facebook page. It’s an essay by the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who says you shouldn’t have to choose between ...

Alasdair MacIntyre, a philosopher who metamorphosed from a London Marxist into a Midwestern American Catholic during a decadeslong quest to prove there was an objective foundation to moral virtue -- a ...

The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, Vol. 21 (2001), pp. 191-213 (23 pages) Christian ethics struggles to articulate a method for thinking about homosexuality and the sexual acts of same-sex ...

Émile Perreau-Saussine, trans. from the French by Nathan J. Pinkoski. Univ. of Notre Dame, $40 (228p) ISBN 978-0-268-20325-2 Perreau-Saussine (Catholicism and Democracy), who lectured in politics and ...

A friend sent me this three-minute clip of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre disdaining The Benedict Option: Look, MacIntyre is an important philosopher and no doubt a good man, but this is simply ...

For Aristotle, the definition of perfect friendship was so narrow that precious few could achieve it. In order to have a perfect friendship between two people, Aristotle said that both must be models ...

Fifty years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. vowed not to read another book about liberalism until his mother wrote one. Liberalism was riding high then, and Buckley was probably annoyed by its champions’ ...