Josh Hochschild
@JoshHochschild
Philosophy, liberal arts, and Catholic higher ed. Co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction.
“The way one suffers must make the world either sadder or happier, one or the other it must do. By suffering badly I add to the common burden, by suffering well I lighten it, and that only on the natural plane.” —Caryll Houselander
This, this, THIS!!!!! Thank you, Bishop Erik Varden!!! coramfratribus.com/life-illumined…
"It is when one humbles himself that he is better able to recognize the face of Christ in the most vulnerable in society." -Andrew Starvaggi in "And Who Is My Neighbor?" brownsonrecord.com/and-who-is-my-…
“As oligarchy grows, it captures the state, and the state’s operating logic gradually becomes that of the oligarchy. Neoliberalism, with its emphasis on free markets, advances this process by weakening democratic checks on the power of oligarchy.”
“I was once a Bitcoin true believer ... but over the course of the 2010s, it became hard to ignore how radically the facts diverged from the vision I had been sold.” @_PeterRyan for @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/money-…
There ought to be an annual Chesterton Award (and the first winner ought to be Dale Ahlquist and the next year's Geir Hasnes and so on) and the trophy/price should by something absolutely ridiculous like a small mountain in Japan that no-one has ever heard of.
but answering “what is the role of a doctor” invariably is a moral question
Just published a short piece arguing that it's not that important if it's the role of the doctor to administer lethal drugs. Link below.
Some shots from a walk through the Vermont woods recently
Is it a sign of political health that we still have recourse to the notion of treason? Or are accusations of treason a mixed signal under the circumstances of modern politics? modernagejournal.com/the-ironies-of…
It is very strange how the episcopal mandatum for Catholic theologians came to be interpreted as a “private” or “confidential” matter. It is a matter of *personal* obligation/relationship, but many personal obligations are fundamentally *public*. usccb.org/committees/cat…
Finished a Vermont project began last summer—using salvaged copper flashing to fashion (very obviously) handmade post caps for the deck
Historically, these ideals, apparently secular, have only been consistently achievable at authentically Catholic universities. Ex Corde Ecclesiae!
Gentle pushback. Protestants historically--as opposed to modern Evangelicals--understood they needed the Fathers, natural law, tradition, and other sources of truth. Scripture alone was *finally* authoritative, not but not the *only* source of truth and authority.
American Protestants don’t need to turn to “ancient communities” for their faith. They only need the Bible. That is enough. It’s all there is, in fact. All the other garbage by cosplaying latter-day Fr. Coughlins and Third World accounts is an anti-American, sectarian op.
On the State of Higher Education: lyceum.institute/news-and-annou…
Brian is doing admirable work. Consider supporting it. At least buy one of his valuable reprints! (I just ordered the Quintillian) lyceum.institute/reprints-serie…
My life is a lesson in humiliation. I'm 39. Unmarried. Childless. No salary. No home. No car. No retirement. Very little savings. I live by the charity of others—freelance consulting, book royalties, the good will of those who believe in me. I hold a PhD in philosophy. But…
Literature can’t be measured by literary theory lawliberty.org/the-theories-a…
