At The Catholic Thing, Fr. Thomas Weinandy
on the
studied ambiguity of Pope Francis.
In his new book Conciliar Octet,
Fr. Aidan Nichols on the
hermeneutic of continuity and Vatican II.
At Medium, philosopher Kathleen Stock on gender
theory versus academic freedom in the UK. At Inside
Higher Education, twelve prominent philosophers defend
the right to free inquiry on matters of sex and gender.
Philosopher Daniel
A. Kaufman on the
“woke” fanatics increasingly infesting academic philosophy, at The Electric Agora. Richard Marshall interviews
Kaufman at 3:16.
Peggy Noonan
on transgender
Jacobinism, at The Wall Street
Journal. At YouTube, video of an indoctrination
session.
Jacob
Howland on Borges’s Library
of Babel, at The New Criterion.
At New Statesman, John Gray on Tom Holland
on the
Christian origins of modern secular liberal values. More reviews at The University Bookman and at Literary Review.
At Quillette, Benedict Beckeld diagnoses Western
self-hatred or oikophobia.
Donald Fagen interviewed on Paul Shaffer Plus One.
Kay Hymowitz
on the
sexual revolution and mental health, at The Washington Examiner.
John DeRosa
of the Classical Theism Podcast interviews Thomist philosopher
Gaven Kerr on the topic of Aquinas and creation.
Ronald W.
Dworkin on “artificial
intelligence” as a projection of artificial intelligence researchers,
at The American Interest.
New books on Aquinas: Aquinas
and the Metaphysics of Creation, by Gaven Kerr; The
Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas, edited by Christopher
Cullen and Franklin Harkins; The
Human Person: What Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas Offer Modern Psychology,
by Thomas Spalding, James Stedman, Christina Gagné, and Matthew Kostelecky.
At the Institute of Art and Ideas: Philosopher
of physics Tim Maudlin on quantum
physics and common sense. Physicist
Subir Sarkar and philosophers Nancy Cartwright and John Dupré discuss
physics and materialism.
Philosopher
Dennis Bonnette on the
distinction between the intellect and the imagination, at Strange Notions.
Philosopher
of time Ross
Cameron is interviewed by Richard Marshall at 3:16.
Duns Scotus
in focus at Philosophy
Now and Commonweal.
10
facts about Alfred Hitchcock Presents, at Mental Floss.
Tim Maudlin
on Judea
Pearl on causation versus correlation, at the Boston Review. Maudlin’s
book Philosophy of Physics: Quantum
Theory is
reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Charles
Styles interviews Peter Harrison on the subject of the
best books on the history of science and religion, at Five Books.
At Quillette, Kevin Mims on The
Exorcist as a film about the breakdown of the
family.
Society in Mind on the
replication crisis in psychology.
Matias
Slavov on Hume
and Einstein on the nature of time, at Aeon.
At Catholic World Report, philosopher
Joseph Trabbic on Aquinas
and political liberalism.
Boston Review on post-liberal
academic political philosophy.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on post-liberal
Catholic political philosophy.
Blue
World, an album
of lost John Coltrane tracks, has
been released.
It’s a
thing. The Huffington Post reports on millennials
who are becoming nuns.
Scott
Alexander on LGBT as a new civil religion, at Slate
Star Codex. C. C.
Pecknold on the
phony neutrality of post-Obergefell liberalism, at Catholic Herald.
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