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 Theoryis 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 Educationon 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.
