Brian Jones

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Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Brian Jones graduated from the Franciscan University with a B.A. and M.A. in Theology. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His works have been published in The Public Discourse, The American Conservative, The Imaginative Conservative, and The Federalist. He is married with three daughters.

Recent Essays

Why We Must Recover Thinking as a Practice

Brian Jones - November 1, 2021

Thinking as a practice places a check upon the self. It offers us a way out of our "res idiotica." If our universities are faithful to their missions, they must foster conditions where truth is free to be heard and sought.

Should We Begin To Reconnect?

Brian Jones - March 30, 2021

Add the past year on to this already disturbing trend, and such destructive realities have only been further exacerbated. The need for human sociality is not a deficiency, nor is it something that we can just put on hold for an indefinite amount of time.

Brian Jones

Recent Essays

Why We Must Recover Thinking as a Practice

Should We Begin To Reconnect?

Narrating the Tradition of Liberalism’s Anti-Tradition

Culture as the Discovery of Meaning

The Theological Need for Mediation: Considerations from Alexis de Tocqueville

Education and the Quest for Association

The Practice of Attachment and A Comprehensive Social Order