Justice

Daniel M. Bell, Jr. discusses the just war tradition, a tradition which is often invoked by figures who, upon closer inspection, tend to lack a robust understanding of its history and criteria. (57 minutes)

Alasdair MacIntyre on the dependence of rationality on a lived tradition

FROM VOL. 108 Jean Porter describes how natural law justifies legal and moral authority within the life of the human person. (17 minutes)

Joseph Ratzinger: “Plato’s philosophy is utterly misconceived when he is presented as an individualistic, dualistic thinker who negates what is earthly and advocates a flight into the beyond.”

Rowan Williams on perceiving what is just in light of what is true and what is real

James Matthew Wilson on the relationship between truth and love in Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate

FEATURED GUESTS: Paul Berman, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Hadley Arkes, Ralph C. Wood, and Jeremy Begbie

FEATURED GUESTS: Craig A. Bernthal, James Turner Johnson, Alissa Quart, Stephen M. Barr, Lilian Calles Barger, and Corby Kummer