Brian A. Smith is senior program manager at Liberty Fund and the author of Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer.
Posts by Brian A. Smith
November 08, 2024
For his creation of Middle-earth, drenched in cultural and linguistic inventiveness, and rich in theological undertones, J.R.R. Tolkien is deservedly credited as one of the first and best creators of the modern fantasy genre.
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March 26, 2024
Thinkers from nearly every intellectual tradition agree that we live in an age when ideology dominates public life. Who or what we can accurately label as ideological is as essentially contested as the rest of politics.
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January 24, 2024
We live in a culture where many believe that the claims of their emotional lives trump all other considerations. This sentimental understanding of the self is driven by our culture’s obsession with identity, which is often grounded in our “sense of self.”
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November 09, 2023
Forty years ago, the philosopher and novelist Walker Percy published what is easily the strangest book of his writing career.
Lost in the Cosmos distills the major themes of both his novels and his philosophical essays into a little over 250 pages of multiple-choice questions (and peculiar answers), hypotheticals, and brief stories.
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