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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

Conservative Prosody

The turning of the plow in the dark fields and the turning of verses on a white field of paper are more than etymologically related.
November 1, 2010

Talkin’ Pauken

At last, true localist and traditional voice from the land of Ron Paul and George Bush.
October 30, 2010

The Population Bomb

Not with a bang, but a whimper . . .
October 21, 2010

The Best Foreign Policy is No Foreign Policy

Or, Domestic policy is the only policy.
October 20, 2010

The New First Principles

A familiar web journal gets a new look and new mission.
October 4, 2010

Stephen Hawking Proves the Existence of God

Obfuscating language and philosophical ignorance do not prevent Hawking from suggesting that modern physics confirms Christian cosmology. Nature really does conform to uncreated law.
September 8, 2010

True Education against the Death of Man

Can the blight of modern reductive thinking and living be overcome by humanistic education? Newman thought so; so does Villanova.
August 22, 2010

Fired for the Natural Law, Part II: Toward a Marriage of Natures

Our conception of nature is too thin, too reliant upon the conceptions of the ancient Stoics, and so requires the more robust visions of Aristotle and Aquinas if moral debate…

Fired for the Natural Law, Part I: Against the Laws of Nature

The precincts of higher education have become so well known for their enormities and absurdities in the pursuit of political correctness that one may almost breeze past the latest episode…

An Homage to Chesterton

For Chesterton the birds of nature were always singing about the rightness of things and so softly correcting modern man’s unnatural despair of the created order and his egregious confidence…

Of Humility and Gratitude: Dana Gioia at Notre Dame

Dana Gioia's brief but worthy address at Notre Dame.