“Few things are more opposed in the popular mind than commerce and Christianity. Investment, gain, loss, debt, payment, receipts, ledgers – what have these to do with salvation? Quite a lot, it turns out. In Be Good Bankers, Michael Pakaluk shows how Matthew the tax collector

Remembering the fall of Constantinople, 1453. The destruction of its indestructible walls.

Today is a great day—the official publication day of a book five years in the making, Natural Law: Five Views. Joined by my co-editor, @RyanTAnd, we edited a book that looks at how various traditions appropriate the natural law. We think a multifaceted view of the natural law

In memoriam, Herb Gross, who died in 2020 this day, whom I loved for his good cheer, lucidity, order, and astounding board work. Thank you. I remember and am grateful.

Watch BE GOOD BANKERS This turned out well, I think. Doug Keck has his way of getting into things.

The first type several essays, I plan to write attacking Social Security as contrary to natural justice. https://t.co/6iXfKm3xST

Coming out in May.

Launches so far in Washington DC, New York City, at my university, with EWTN.

My book coming out later this year. I’m not really keen on “enchantment”. I do like romance.

In an interview recorded yesterday, Hoover Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell criticizes the tariffs President Trump instituted earlier today. Watch the complete interview with Dr. Sowell on @UncKnowledge with Peter Robinson (@P_M_Robinson) on April 15th, 2025.

The definition of unreality. "We receive $1 billion from an entity and have been independent of that entity." Also, "We receive $1 billion from an entity and ought to be independent of that entity." Sed contra: "Protego ergo obligo is the cogito ergo sum of the state."

This "pre-launch" event at the Catholic Information Center conveys a good account of Be Good Bankers, my most recent book, just in case you are interested.

Waking up out of my away-from-twitter slumber to amplify this opinion piece. The White House strategy of bashing judges and jamming the Supreme Court could backfire in spectacular fashion. https://t.co/MXrl20Fxvh via @WSJopinion

I'm completing a book on St. Thomas' prayer before study which will be 50K words about 111 words, proof that the careful study of a text in St. Thomas is amply repaid. The book at the same time will show without doubt that the prayer is by St. Thomas, doubted by many scholars.

It's a hot new release.

If only they knew how many articles I effectively ghost-wrote for my psychology professors when I was an undergrad.

Astonishing concert of Beethoven, Poulenc, Brahms, and Bartok. Kennedy Center.

Washington DC launch, Mar 4. Manhattan launch, Mar 11. My university's launch, Apr 3:

From the vaults. One of my favorite pictures of my wife @CRPakaluk , in Oxford.

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@MichaelPakaluk sometimes your essays are like a scalpel in a skilled surgeon’s hand; they cut right to the quick, expose the cancer, and leave the wound open so that we either bleed to death, or seek God’s mercy, so that He will clean the wound and close it up. That’s this essay