VIDEO
Duration: 1:01:00 with discussion afterwards — Talk delivered on Thursday, October 14, 2022
The Politics of Nothingness
—Michael Hanby—
Author, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America
This talk has also appeared in the pages of Touchstone. Read the paper here.
Michael Hanby is an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America. He has also taught at Baylor University and Villanova University. He is the author of two books, most recently No God, No Science? Theology, Cosmology, Biology (2013). A collection of essays provisionally titled On Being . . . Human, Catholic, American should appear sometime in 2023 . Dr. Hanby's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, First Things, and The Federalist, as well as other magazines and numerous academic journals. He has been deeply involved in the movement to renew Catholic education and co-authored the curricula for two schools.
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