David Weinberger is a freelance writer and book reviewer on topics related to philosophy, culture, history, and economics. His Substack is davidweinberger.substack.com. Follow him on X.com @DWeinberger03. Email him at [email protected].
Posts by David Weinberger
May 12, 2026
“All these [living] things around us have been seminally and primordially created in the very fabric, as it were, or texture of the elements; but they require the right occasion actually to emerge into being.”—Augustine Continue Reading...
April 01, 2026
If your dog and a stranger were both drowning, who would you save first? Nationally renowned radio host and bestselling author Dennis Prager often poses this question to his audiences, and he typically gets a pretty depressing answer.
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January 08, 2026
Philosophy, Aristotle observed, begins in wonder. Too often today, however, philosophy begins in arid formulas that look more like math equations than like curiosity about the great questions of life—“Does God exist?”
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May 01, 2024
G.K. Chesterton once said that a stolen umbrella confirmed for him that the Catholic Church was where he belonged. As he explained, when attending different Christian churches, he often left his umbrella at the back door and collected it after the service.
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December 08, 2023
Fulton Sheen once remarked that “not over a hundred people” hate the Catholic Church, but “there are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.” The same might be said for free market economics.
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November 10, 2023
“In fact, the fundamental claim of this book is that if one believes the world actually is intelligible—that things make sense, and ultimate explanation can be had—then God exists.” This is the provocative thesis of philosopher and writer Pat Flynn, whose new book,
The Best Argument for God, insists that the real philosophical dilemma we face is not between theism and atheism but between theism and absurdity, or a reality that is utterly unintelligible.
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September 29, 2023
Does God exist, or are we the mere by-products of evolution, simple accidents of the Big Bang? Do we have free will, or is everything predetermined, robbing us of true moral agency?
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July 12, 2023
If you are looking for an accessible introduction to philosophy in the Catholic tradition, James M. Jacobs’ new book,
Seat of Wisdom, is a great place to begin. To be sure, any entrance into philosophy takes patience and hard thinking, and Jacobs’ book is no exception, but anyone willing to put forth the effort will surely gain a richer understanding of reality and the meaning of human existence—and human rights.
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