Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)

Tributes

• I Learned Virtue from Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025), by Wyatt Graham. The Gospel Coalition 05/26/25.
• Alasdair MacIntyre obituary The Guardian 05/25/25.
• Recognizing the Importance of MacIntyre, by John Haldane. First Things 05/23/25.
• In Memoriam: Alasdair MacIntyre, by Joseph R. Wood. The Catholic Thing 05/24/25.
• Alasdair MacIntyre’s Work of Mercy by Christopher Justin Brophy. The Lamp 05/23/25.
• Postliberalism’s Reluctant Godfather, by Nathan Pinkoski. Compact 05/23/25.
• Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025), by Russell Arben Fox. Front Porch Republic 05/23/25.
• Alasdair MacIntyre, renowned Catholic moral philosopher, dies at 96, by Kimberly Heatherington. National Catholic Reporter 05/23/25.
• Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025), by Christopher Kaczor. Word on Fire 05/22/25.
• Alasdair MacIntyre: de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. Collected conference / lecture videos.

MacIntyre Online

• The Perils of Revolutionary Aristotelianism, by John F. Doherty. The Public Discourse 05/05/25. "The fundamentally Marxist philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre has less to teach conservatives than some have claimed."
• What Can the Right Learn from Karl Marx?, by Daniel Addison. The Public Discourse 12/15/24.
• The Left Should Take Alasdair MacIntyre Seriously, by Matt McManus. Jacobin 09/24. "Alasdair MacIntyre’s original critique of liberal modernity has won followers on the Left and the Right. His account of how capitalism has undermined the conditions of human flourishing deserves the serious attention of socialists."
• Alasdair MacIntyre's Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame, by Kenneth Sayre. Churchlife Journal 09/10/24.
• The Limits of Liberalism: A biography of Alasdair MacIntyre fails to illuminate, by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb. Commonweal 02/12/23.
• Alasdair MacIntyre's Service to Theology, by Joshua Hothschild. Churchlife Journal 09/25/23.
• On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century, by Alisdair MacIntyre. Churchlife Journal 07/18/23.
• Liberalism's Two Sides: Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty’s lifelong argument, by George Scialabba. The Nation 05/23.
• The Oddity of God: A Preliminary Reflection on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Recent Comments, by John O'Callaghan. Churchlife Journal 12/08/22.
  • The Oddity of God, Part II: A Concluding Reflection on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Recent Comments, by John O'Callaghan. Churchlife Journal 12/13/22.
• This Christmas, Radical Christianity and Marxism Can Inspire Us to Build a Better World, by Matt McManus. Jacobin 12/25/22. "The conventional understanding of Marxism as doggedly anti-religious is wrong. In fact, as the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre argued, Christianity and Marxism have at times inspired in humanity a radical sense of hope to build a more just world."
• The Anti-Modern Marxism of Alasdair MacIntyre, by Samuel McIlhagga. Jacobin 11/09/22. "Over seven decades, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has advanced one of the most radical critiques of capitalist modernity. But in opposing modernity, he has denied a key insight of Marxism: socialism must develop, not reject, capitalism’s dynamism."
• MacIntyre's Flight from Politics, by Pierre Manent. Compact 11/02/22.
• Speaking with the Barbarians: Maritain, MacIntyre, and Christendom, by Anthony Barr. The Public Discourse 02/19/22.
• Alasdair MacIntyre on human dignity: Summary, analysis, and comments, by Edward Feser. Catholic World Report 11/26/21. "I strongly sympathize with MacIntyre’s general theme that the notion of human dignity is more problematic and less interesting than many contemporary Catholics suppose, but I’m not convinced by some of the specific points MacIntyre makes."
• ‘Dignity’ as Dangerous? Alasdair MacIntyre and ‘the Power of the Catholic Intellectual Ecosystem’, by Jonathan Liedl. National Catholic Register 11/19/21.
• The Fractured Metaphysics of Protests, by Alasdair Macintyre. Churchlife Journal 01/10/21.
• Revisiting Alasdair MacIntyre on Liberal Toleration, by Nathan Pinkoski. The Public Discourse 06/21/20.
• Alasdair MacIntyre: True friendships are rare, but possible, by Mary Farrow. Catholic News Agency 11/17/19.
• Christianity's Contribution to the History of Ethics, by Alasdair MacIntyre. Churchlife Journal 11/08/19.
• Marxism and Religion, by Alasdair Macintyre. Churchlife Journal 01/25/19.
• The Anti-Integralist Alasdair MacIntyre, by Caleb Bernacchio. Churchlife Journal 05/08/18.
• MacIntyre's Philosophy of Mercy's Clandestine Work in a Secular World, by Caleb Bernacchio. Churchlife Journal 02/13/18.
• Alasdair MacIntyre's Marxist Sweet Spot, by Timothy Fuller. Law & Liberty 09/11/17. Review of Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative.
• MacIntyre Against Morality, by John Haldane. First Things 05/01/17. Review of Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative.
• Defending Alasdair MacIntyre’s Economics, by David Andreas. The Public Discourse 03/14/11. "Alasdair MacIntyre may be wrong about the details of finance, but he is right on the largest questions of political economy."
• MacIntyre on Money by John Cornwell. Prospect 10/20/10. "The influential moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has long stood outside the mainstream. Has the financial crisis finally vindicated his critique of global capitalism?"
• The End of Education: The Fragmentation of the American University, by Alasdair MacIntyre. Commonweal 10/16/06.
• The Achievement of Alasdair Macintyre, by Edward T. Oakes. First Things 08/01/96.
• Review: Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, by Alasdair MacIntyre, by Richard J. Neuhaus. Commentary June 1988.
• Dr Küng’s Fiasco, by Alasdair MacIntyre. London Review of Books Vol. 3 No. 2 · 5 February 1981.
• Alasdair MacIntyre on the claims of philosophy, by Alasdair MacIntyre. London Review of Books Vol. 2 No. 11 · 5 June 1980.