James Matthew Wilson

James Matthew Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University.
Articles by James Matthew Wilson
Deracinated Meritocrats and the Marriage “Debate”
Devon, PA. I just received a link to a video that records the encounter of members of the TFP (The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property)…
History’s Long Road to Tyranny: Tocqueville and the End of Equality
Devon, PA. I have just finished teaching Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America with my freshmen students. In a way I have not witnessed before, they were compelled by his…
Wilson at Steubenville
Devon, PA. All you who are in the Pittsburg/eastern Ohio region would be most welcome at the talking and reading I shall give this Friday at the Franciscan University of…
Stoic Sex in Evanston
Tucson, AZ. One of the pleasing genres of contemporary journalism is the coverage of bizarre happenings in academe that shock the sensibility of the middle classes. You know the types:…
Your Justice Is My Pay Check
Tucson, AZ. Far from my native Midwest, which sometimes seems to be working out the details of its final collapse after decades of decline, and far from the equally depressing…
T.S. Eliot Week
My Eliot week, I should say. All Readers of good will are welcome to join in the talk fest.
For Craft and Country: Richard Wakefield’s Eminent Domain
Richard Wakefield’s book of poems takes its place as one more important and hard-won advance in the restoration of good poetry to our culture.
The Wilson Winter Tour
I may be holding forth on a porch near you. All ye of good will are invited.
What Is Wrong with Contemporary Intellectuals?
"Intellectual" and "Disinterested," as we use them, are new words. I "prefer" old words: Scholar, Monk, Contemplative, Lover of Wisdom.
That Endless Enlightenment
Academic leftists and conservative critics of academe are united in a fundamental proposition, says Stanley Fish. True enough, say I: education is endless and the world is a nauseating abyss.
Local Beer, Rhyming Poets
Seven poets, including your humble author, descend upon Victory Brewing Company this coming Sunday to test the compatibility of Hops and Hopkins.
Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve
From "Tran-sexual" Hoosier Street Vandals to the pinched daughters of Margaret Sanger and on to the Supreme Court of California, "the new sexual inversion demands recognition, even when there are…