Thomas M. Ward
@prof_tom_ward
Philosopher at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Civic Leadership. Books: After Stoicism; Ordered by Love; Treatise on the First Principle.
Honored to receive a Book Award from the Catholic Media Association, for After Stoicism. It won First Place in the History category: catholicmediaassociation.org/2025-cma-book-…
'Dedham Vale, Evening,' (1802) was painted close to John Constable's home at East Bergholt in Suffolk, the year he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London - he was gathering the material that would fuel his creative ideas for the rest of his working life.
History of Philosophy, Political Thought, Intellectual History, faculty.utexas.edu/career/165455 via @UTAustin
Absolutely unbelievable. Dr. Frey starts an incredibly successful great books Honors College rooted in what is true, good, and beautiful... and then she's terminated. Reminds me of John Senior.⬇️
Now for some personal news: today is my last day as Dean. I was stunned to be informed by our new provost there will no longer be a Dean of Honors, period. Nor an Assistant Dean. Rather, I was told there will be a “director” of honors--but that person will not be me. (12/21)
I had a chance to visit the Honors College at Tulsa earlier this year for a conference. It was an inspiration to join the community of students and scholars there, committed to liberal learning. Sad and frankly shocking to read that Dean Frey’s position has been cut!
Two years ago, I moved to Tulsa to become the inaugural dean of a new honors college. Then President @bradrcarson convinced me to leave my endowed position at Carolina to build the university’s sixth college. I am so proud of all we accomplished over the last two years 🧵(1/21)
Both ways, like Chesterton: “We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.”
Which way, O Western man?
I have an essay in this new Handbook: The Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
And my second talk from the same retreat: The Convertibility of Being and Goodness | Prof. Thomas Ward podcast.thomisticinstitute.org/the-convertibi…
Casey Chalk at The Federalist reviews After Stoicism: thefederalist.com/2025/06/12/whe…
I'm grateful for this review of After Stoicism:
Today @mereorthodoxy, @PLNU's history professor Rick Kennedy reviews @prof_tom_ward's recent book on Boethius, *After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher* mereorthodoxy.com/the-wisdom-of-…
One of my talks at a retreat a few months ago is now on the Thomistic Institute Podcast: Evil as Privation | Prof. Thomas Ward podcast.thomisticinstitute.org/evil-as-privat…
Bottom left would make a great Che style t-shirt. I’d wear it.
Born in the United States, the most powerful country in the world, Pope Leo XIV spent nearly two decades in Peru as a missionary, bearing witness to Jesus Christ.