At Catholic World Report, my co-author Joseph Bessette on the death penalty, recent popes, and deterrence.
The New Yorker on the late Jerry Fodor and his critique of Neo-Darwinism.
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder announces her forthcoming bookLost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. She also has a blog.
Rolling Stoneinterviews Donald Fagen about his late partner Walter Becker and the future of Steely Dan.
Conservative philosopher Robert Koons has a column at Newsmax.
At Project Syndicate, economist Robert Skidelsky calls attention to some inconvenient truths about migration. John O’Sullivan on Europe and Muslim immigration, at the Claremont Review of Books.
Commentary on the thirtieth anniversary of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.
The Dictator Pope is reviewed by Robert Royal at The Catholic Thing, Dan Hitchens at Catholic Herald, and Philip Lawler at Catholic World Report. Hitchens, Ed Condon, and Damian Thompson discuss the book in a Holy Smoke podcast.
This summer, The Berkeley Institute will be hosting a seminar for students on the theme of sexuality and gender. The seminar will be led by Candace Vogler and Neville Hoad.
In defense of St. Junipero Serra, at First Things.
Vanity Fair uncovers the secrets of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and presents an oral history of how the Marvel movie juggernaut got started. But the New Republic thinks bringing Marvel and Fox together will be a disaster.
Meanwhile, at Marvel’s publishing arm, progressive politics collides with market reality.
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Peter Harrison on the dialogue between science and religion.
Sociologist Mark Regnerus on sex scandals and sex differences, at Public Discourse.
The Weekly Standardtalks to philosopher Roger Scruton about conservative environmentalism, Brexit, and his farm.
Something to bring all Trump haters and Trump fans together. Except for the ones who don’t like Talking Heads.
At Free Inquiry, Susan Haack asks whether philosophy can be saved.
Anthony Gottlieb on the correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth on the mind-body problem, at Lapham’s Quarterly.
Vultureranks every episode of Black Mirror. Electric Dreamsdoesn’t necessarily stick closely to Philip K. Dick’s original stories. The Punisher is reviewed at Forbes.
Han Thomas Adriaenssen’s Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes is reviewed by Dominik Perler at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
From armchair to reality? Thinking about thought experiments, at Aeon.
“But the pope said so!” Philosopher Peter Kwasniewski on what not to say on Judgment Day.
David DeGrazia and Lester Hunt debate gun control in a new book reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
The National Interest on dictators and the intellectuals who love them.
The Atlantic on the lazy filmmaking of Woody Allen.
At The Washington Post, Alan Lightman on Karl Sigmund’s new book on the Vienna Circle.
The Atlanticreviews David Bentley Hart’s new translation of the New Testament. So does First Things.
City Journal on the man who ran the Strand.
Jerry Coyne does not like A. N. Wilson’s new book on Darwin, at The Washington Post.