Virgil: The Flame of Rome
Virgil: The Flame of Rome By Matt McKeown As Jove rescued Æneas from the fires of Troy’s destruction, so the divine Augustus saved the Æneid from its author’s …
The Great Conversation: Constitution
The Great Conversation: Constitution By Matt McKeown Society is governed by laws. What governs the laws themselves? When we speak of constitutions here in the US, we tend …
The Great Conversation: Memory and Imagination
The Great Conversation: Memory and Imagination By Matt McKeown Considering that we use them every time we think, it can be surprisingly difficult to explain what we mean …
Tertullian: Father of Latin Christianity
Tertullian: Father of Latin Christianity By Matt McKeown The fiery tongue of Tertullian still speaks. St. Augustine of Hippo is probably the most famous of the Church Fathers …
Anselm: Father of the Scholastics
Anselm:Father of the Scholastics By Matt McKeown Can a philosopher greater than St. Anselm be conceived? St. Anselm of Canterbury is one of the pivotal figures in the …
The Great Conversation: Theology
The Great Conversation:Theology By Matt McKeown Few topics are as contentious, or as rich, as that of divinity. We have discussed religion here at the journal before. It …
Einstein: The Father of Modern Physics
Einstein:The Father of Modern Physics By Matt McKeown Einstein’s theories can sound like an avalanche of weirdness for its own sake. The truth is simpler, and more interesting. …
Ovid: Scribe of Venus
Ovid:Scribe of Venus By Matt McKeown In both Ovid’s light verse and his grander work, the two aspects of the Roman Venus are clearly discernible. The first century …
The Great Conversation: Law
The Great Conversation: Law By Matt McKeown Man is a political animal. … Right? Some of the great ideas come up more often around elections, and law is …
The Great Conversation: Desire
The Great Conversation: Desire By Matt McKeown There are few ideas more deceitfully simple than desire. Desire is a more complicated subject than it may appear at first …
