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Edward Feser

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"One of the best contemporary writers on philosophy" National Review "A terrific writer" Damian Thompson, Daily Telegraph "Feser... has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument compulsively readable" Sir Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement Selected for the First Things lis

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October 2026

  1. Rehman on Immortal Souls
  2. The Metaphysical Foundations of Conservatism
  3. Toner on Immortal Souls
  4. Executions should not be livestreamed

September 2026

  1. Kingsnorth and Quay on transhumanism (Updated)
  2. Craig on Thomism and divine simplicity, Part II
  3. Craig on Thomism and divine simplicity, Part I
  4. Craig on finitism and presentism

August 2026

  1. Just war doctrine and Congress’s war powers
  2. Berkeley’s God
  3. Abortion and partisan politics
  4. Anthony Kenny (1931-2026)

July 2026

  1. Summer web surfing
  2. The evil and incoherence of targeting civilian infrastructure
  3. Anscombe on human dignity
  4. Review of Smith
  5. I'm a grandfather!
  6. Nguyen on Immortal Souls
  7. Chesterton on patriotism

June 2026

  1. The Journal of Natural Law
  2. What is the mechanical world picture?
  3. Leo XIV contra the new Babel: Reflections on the pope’s landmark encyclical

May 2026

  1. Nagel on Stroud on the possibility of metaphysics
  2. No, the U.S. has not been at war with Iran for 47 years
  3. The transmission theory of authority

April 2026

  1. Misunderstanding the “just cause” condition of just war doctrine
  2. Just war doctrine and moral certainty
  3. The Journal of Natural Law
  4. Caught in the web
  5. The New Neo-Scholasticism
  6. Rational social animals and addiction
  7. Will “a whole civilization die tonight”?
  8. Contra White and Graham

March 2026

  1. Texts on tyranny from the tradition
  2. The epistemology of microphysics
  3. Just war doctrine and the duties of soldiers
  4. Harrington on “Thomophobia”
  5. Thomism Revisited
  6. America’s conflict in Iran is not a just war
  7. Dissent and double standards at Where Peter Is
  8. The New Neo-Scholasticism

February 2026

  1. The U.S. war on Iran is manifestly unjust
  2. Xenophanes and natural theology
  3. Cancelled in L.A. (Updated)
  4. No, AI does not have human-level intelligence

January 2026

  1. Van Fraassen on microscopy
  2. Socratic politics: Lessons from the Gorgias
  3. Church history does not support Trump’s expansionism
  4. Pope Leo XIV on politics and the death penalty
  5. Review of Gorman
  6. Interview on the Venezuela situation
  7. On Searle at First Things
  8. Some basic principles of masculinity

December 2025

  1. Catholic natural law thinkers on nation versus race
  2. Merry Christmas
  3. Return of the missing links
  4. Lawful authority in just war doctrine
  5. Kant’s claustrophobic metaphysics (Updated)
  6. Would a U.S. war against Venezuela be just?
  7. It's an open thread!

November 2025

  1. Liberalism and the virtue of gratitude
  2. Pope Leo on immigration enforcement
  3. Searle contra deconstruction
  4. Remembering John Searle
  5. Cardinal Fernández on doctrinal clarity

October 2025

  1. There are two sides to the Catholic immigration debate
  2. Vallicella on Immortal Souls
  3. Fastiggi and Sonna on Catholicism and capital punishment (Updated)

September 2025

  1. Against flag burning
  2. John Searle (1932-2025)
  3. How not to limit free speech
  4. Thucydides’ times and ours
  5. Is mandatory vaccination intrinsically wrong?

August 2025

  1. Maimonides on negative theology
  2. Diabolical modernity
  3. Hanson on observation
  4. Newman on capital punishment

July 2025

  1. Suffering for the truth (Updated)
  2. A postliberal middle ground on trade
  3. Heeding Anscombe on just war doctrine
  4. A second Honorius?
  5. Aquinas and prudential judgment

June 2025

  1. Talk it out
  2. Solidarity
  3. Preventive war and the U.S. attack on Iran
  4. Shields on Aquinas on the Unmoved Mover
  5. The U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with Iran (Updated)
  6. Immortal Souls in Religion & Liberty
  7. Riots should be suppressed swiftly and harshly
  8. MacIntyre on Hegel on human action

May 2025

  1. Lamont on Trump, abortion, and Ukraine
  2. What is ideology?
  3. Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
  4. Pope Leo XIV on families and the family of nations
  5. Greenland and the ethics of annexation
  6. Pope Leo XIV

April 2025

  1. The ethics of wealth and poverty
  2. Catholicism and immigration: Reply to Cory and Sweeney
  3. The pope’s first duty
  4. The two thieves
  5. On the tariff crisis
  6. On pride and vainglory
  7. Scholastic regress arguments

March 2025

  1. Immortal Souls on the Classical Theism Podcast
  2. Catholicism and immigration
  3. Liberalism’s catastrophic spider
  4. Life, Reproduction, and the Paradox of Evolution
  5. Mackie on Pascal’s Wager

February 2025

  1. What proceeds from Hart (Updated)
  2. Immigration and academia on The Tom Woods Show
  3. Trump’s Gaza proposal is gravely immoral
  4. Just war principles and the Mexican drug cartels
  5. Catholics and immigration on No Spin News (Updated)

January 2025

  1. More on Immortal Souls
  2. The ethics of invective
  3. A report from the Great Los Angeles Fire

December 2024

  1. The thread you’ve been waiting for
  2. Boczar on Immortal Souls
  3. Gilson on philosophy and its history
  4. Nicholson on Immortal Souls
  5. Full interview on Pints with Aquinas
  6. Pints with Aquinas interview (Updated)

November 2024

  1. Zubia on Hume and liberalism
  2. Popper’s via negativa
  3. Advice to Christian Philosophers
  4. Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF

October 2024

  1. Progressive Catholics and capital punishment
  2. Augustine, liberalism, and political polarization
  3. Immortal Souls now available
  4. Abortion and subsidiarity
  5. Vinco on Feser in Philosophische Rundschau

September 2024

  1. The latest on Immortal Souls
  2. The new Aquinas 101
  3. The popesplainer’s safety dance
  4. Trump: A buyer’s guide
  5. The problem with the “hard problem”

August 2024

  1. Rawls’s liberal integralism
  2. Trump has put social conservatives in a dilemma
  3. Damnation roundup

July 2024

  1. Word on Fire Institute course
  2. More on the GOP and social conservatism
  3. Now is the time for social conservatives to fight
  4. Fight, yes, but for what?
  5. The future of the Magisterium
  6. Rawls on religion

June 2024

  1. Hobbes and Kant on capital punishment
  2. Immortal Souls in eBook format
  3. Scruton on tradition
  4. Immortal Souls now available for pre-order
  5. Postliberalism is not despotism

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