Ryan Shinkel

Ryan Shinkel

Ryan Shinkel is a rising senior at the University of Michigan. He is majoring in Philosophy and Creative Writing and Literature, and is a contributor for Conciliar Post.

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Feeling Sheepish?

February 22, 2015

The meritocratic collegiate class has a sense of entitlement that distances its members from even the WASP aristocracy that dominated the elite universities prior to the 60s. I feel sheepish in saying that we are being ill-prepared for victory hard fought and hard won.


Nietzsche and the Vitality of a Post-Secular Europe

January 11, 2015

Nietzsche was able to recognize that Christianity is central to culture while his contemporaries were not. Who in Europe will recognize this today?


One-Nation Conservatism: The Case for the Reformocons

December 21, 2014

Seeking to extend the benefits of national social membership to the living and to sow those benefits for those yet to come, “Reform Conservatism” is the beginning of a politics that incentivize the current generation to consider its duties in civil society.


Natural Law and the Liberal Arts: An Interview With Robert P. George

December 16, 2014

Robert George speaks with Ryan Shinkel about natural law, the liberal arts, and the work of the Love and Fidelity Network.


Different Kinds of Liberalism: Chesterton and Burke v. Storck

December 11, 2014

Liberalism gone awry can be reeled in, and it exists in modes that can be informed by prior allegiance to Catholic and natural law principles.


Two Catholic Camps Worth Debating

December 2, 2014

Paraphrasing Chesterton, we may all be sea sick with secular liberalism, but whether Neuhaus and MacIntyre, we are all in the same Catholic boat. That I think can be honest agreement.


Interstellar Exploration and the God Who Motivates It

November 19, 2014

Should not space travel be seen as part of our participation in God’s renewal of the world by baptizing all of creation with our presence?


The Catholic Church in America: An Interview with Robert P. George

November 12, 2014

Robert P. George discusses the upcoming Vatican colloquium on the family, the end of “comfortable Catholicism” in America, and his disagreement with Patrick Deneen on the Founding’s consonance with Catholic teaching.