My enthusiasms

We usually go through phases when we are especially enamored of one writer or another. My big phase, of course, was de Lubac back in the late '90s. Before that there as Merton. Before that, Tolkien (which never died). 

Here is a list of current writers and thinkers that I especially pay attention to these days:

Anthony Esolen    literature

Joseph Pearce    literature

Fr. Robert Spitzer    philosophy and science

O. Carter Snead    law

J. Budziszewski    political science

Helen Alvaré    law

Bishop Robert Barron    prelate

George Weigel    I don't even know

Archbishop Charles Chaput    prelate

Mac Horton    literature, politics, and cultural critique mostly, but also a lot of television, which I don't watch

Msgr. Charles Pope    pastor

My attraction has something to do with depth, thoroughness, clarity, solidity of thought, and groundedness in tradition. It is not even that I agree with everything that they say. Note that only one of them is a theologian. Interesting. 

As I remember others, I will add them in a separate post.