Books

Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center Online Publications Library

The Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND TEC) connects some 30 faculty from more than a dozen academic units on campus. These faculty affiliates publish their research in a...

Kylemore Book Club: Literature & Film in Lockdown

Books and Literature

Travel Books

Gregory Greif’s essay received an honorable mention in Notre Dame Magazine’s 2019 Young Alumni Essay Contest.  Travel Books When traveling, I always make sure to bring a...

Professor Meghan Sullivan on Plato’s Republic

Professor Meghan Sullivan she speaks about Plato’s Republic (ca. 375 BC), as part of “The Book That Changed My Life” series from the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture....

Professor and Poet James Matthew Wilson on the Importance of Writing

James Matthew Wilson is a poet and associate professor in religion and literature in the department of Humanities and Augustinian Tradions at Villanova University. In this...

Dale Ahlquist on G. K. Chesterton

Dale Ahlquist is an author and president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. We chat about Chesterton’s 1930 visit to Notre Dame, the newly-acquired Chesterton...

Arthur Brooks on Loving Your Enemies

In this episode, we sit down with Arthur Brooks, the former president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save...

The Surprise-Packed Cosmic Funhouse

The world is a magical place. I believe this to be true, although many would quarrel with the meaning of “magical.” It is surely a realm possessed of wonders. Many of these...

Tidings from the Other Side

I am the keeper of a family memory. Its details are blurry and its edges curled, but I hold it close, like a pocketworn heirloom photograph. My grandmother is 6. She is playing on...

Savor the Inexplicable

Tragedy and joy collided in my life the week my father died unexpectedly and my wife —equally unexpectedly — discovered she was pregnant. My view of the universe changed, too,...

Ghost Tracks

As a kid growing up in northern Illinois, I wasn’t the sort who was overly concerned with supernatural phenomena. My imagination ran more along the lines of Casper the Friendly...