I’m not at all sure why so many of my social media friends are offended or upset about graduation protests this year. I did everything I could (including adding a line or two to the main protest speech) when… Read More
Over at Winston Elliott’s brilliant website, The Imaginative Conservative, I had the honor to write about the necessity of connecting liberty to sacrifice as understood through the students of two of the best colleges: Notre Dame and Hillsdale…. Read More
Not one of his students would ever accuse Father O’Connell of softness, favoritism, or sloth. He was a fierce man, a fierce priest, and a fierce professor. He possessed perhaps the most penetrating and intelligent eyes and brow… Read More
While an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame (B.A., 1990), I had the immense pleasure of working with Professor Walter T.K. Nugent, a scholar of remarkable talents. Not only did he serve as one of my main… Read More
In the fall of 1988, I returned to the University of Notre Dame after having spent my sophomore year (July 1987-July 1988) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. When I saw that a famous Platonist in the philosophy… Read More
