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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Postmodernist Skepticism and the Four Senses of Scripture

November 2, 2014

Human language captures, in all its historical contexts, the varieties of meaning in our shared experience of the world. This spiritual vision of language is a far better trend to cultivate than any postmodernist gobbledygook.


The Fecundity of the Good in Amadeus and The Fisher King

October 13, 2014

The heart of human reality is an Augustinian participation in each other’s healing love, which ultimately derives from participation in the infinite good of God.


Our Equal Opportunity for Chivalry: A Virtue For He and For She

October 7, 2014

Whether or not chivalry is dead in the popular mind, it ought to be resurrected.


Political Correctness and the University’s Pink Police State

September 21, 2014

The Pink Police State is a state in which private license is boundless, while public freedoms of communal organization are stringently limited. It is the making of a dystopic Terry Gilliam film.


Contrasting the Epicurean and Christian Narratives of the Self

September 10, 2014

The great contrast with Epicurean self-identification is of course the Christian view of the self.


The Soul of Scruton: How One Philosopher Grounds Faith in a World of Science

September 4, 2014

Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World makes ground for God by exploring the tension of the aesthetical, moral, and interpersonal world of human existence in an age of science.