On BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg discusses Kant’s categorical imperative with David Oderberg and other philosophers.
Philosopher of science Bas van Fraassen is interviewed at 3:AM Magazine.
From Edições Cristo Rei, my book The Last Superstition is now available in a Portuguese translation.
At First Things, Rusty Reno on accommodation to liberal modernity among contemporary American conservatives and in the pontificate of Pope Francis.
The Globe and Mail asks why it is so hard for a woman to find a good man these days. Mark Regnerus has the answer.
At Aeon, Michael Ruse on biology and teleology.
Newsweekinterviews Reed Tucker, author of Slugfest: Inside the Epic 50-Yer Battle Between Marvel and DC.
At the Claremont Review of Books, Algis Valiunas on Martin Luther and his revolution.
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? interviews conservative philosopher Daniel Bonevac.
Paul Mankowski on the merits of Evelyn Waugh, at First Things.
Cluny Media launches The Thomist Tradition book series. The inaugural volume is Metaphysics and the Existence of God by Thomas C. O’Brien.
On seeing racism everywhere, via The Maverick Philosopher.
At Public Discourse, Paul DeHart critiques Leo Strauss on reason and revelation.
Kin to the Martini, it’s the Gin & It. Gin Foundryhas the recipe.
At First Things, Fr. Thomas Joseph White recommends three books on Catholicism in the modern world.
Donald Fagen’s The Nightflyis 35 years old. Steely Dan’s Ajais 40. Rolling Stone on the late Walter Becker.
The Times Literary Supplement on the relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
David Bentley Hart contra Daniel Dennett, at The New Atlantis.
Standpoint recalls Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind.
First Things on what papal infallibility is not. Related remarks from canon lawyer Ed Peters.
Fresh Airinterviews jazz pianist Dave Frishberg. His memoir My Dear Departed Past was recently published.
Los Angeles Review of Books on Reinhold Niebuhr, David Bentley Hart, and the theologian as public intellectual.
Ray Monk on the character of Gottlob Frege, at Prospect.
A. N. Wilson on the theology of Isaac Newton, at The Spectator.
Den of Geek!interviews Bryan Cranston about the new Philip K. Dick anthology series Electric Dreams.
From Bill Clinton to Harvey Weinstein and back again, at The Weekly Standard.
Keith Allen’s A Naive Realist Theory of Colour is reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin versus Hitler, at Foreign Affairs. Kotkin’s new book on the subject reviewed at The New Criterion.
John O’Sullivan on Islam, liberalism, and the future of Europe, at the Claremont Review of Books.
Far out, man! First Comics News on Mark Voger’s new book Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture.