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.
Talkin’ Pauken
At last, true localist and traditional voice from the land of Ron Paul and George Bush.
The Population Bomb
Not with a bang, but a whimper . . .
The Best Foreign Policy is No Foreign Policy
Or, Domestic policy is the only policy.
The New First Principles
A familiar web journal gets a new look and new mission.
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.
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.
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…
Roger Ebert on the Visceral Beauty of Chicago Architecture
In architecture I am a reactionary.
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.