Joseph Bessette on criminal sentencing laws and retributive justice, at Public Discourse.
The Catholic Thing on the late, great Michael Uhlmann. Requiescat in pace, Mike.
At The New Atlantis, Benjamin Liebeskind reviews Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science.
At The Spectator, Roger Scruton looks back with gratitude at an annus horribilis.
Jez Rowden’s Steely Dan: Every Album, Every Song will be released next month. Ultimate Classic Rock on the great Eagles/Steely Dan cross-reference.
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?interviews Scott Soames. Soames’s new book The World Philosophy Made has just been released.
Sabine Hossenfelder of BackReaction on the crisis in physics, mathematical laws of nature, and cognitive bias in science.
Richard Marshall interviews philosopher Thomas Pink, at 3:16.
Glenda Satne reviews Alex Rosenberg’s How History Gets Things Wrong, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Bookforum on flummery in the name of neuroscience.
Sexual immorality and the decline of civilizations: Kirk Durston on J. D. Unwin’s Sex and Culture.
Forbes on the final season of The Man in the High Castle. The Wrapexplains that enigmatic ending.
J. K. Rowling, Ricky Gervais, and the right to say the obvious. Theodore Dalrymple comments at City Journal, and Kyle Smith provides an update at National Review. Spikedwonders whether the tide is starting to turn against trans lunacy.
Regulating pornography: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on why it should be done, at American Greatness. Terry Schilling on how it can be done, at First Things. Gerard Bradley on the same theme, at Public Discourse.
Capturing Christianityinterviews philosopher Tim Hsiao on the topic of sexual morality.
Massimo Pigliucci reviews Paul Feyerabend’s Philosophy of Nature, at Philosophy Now.
At Harper’s, Lionel Shriver on left-wing linguistic legerdemain. Los Angeles Review of Bookson David Bromwich on the left and free speech.
Church Times reports on Rupert Shortt’s new book Outgrowing Dawkins: God for Grown-Ups. Ben Sixsmith at Arc Digital performs an autopsy on the New Atheism. Prospect on agnostic Stephen Asma on our need for religion.
Also at 3:16, Richard Marshall interviews philosopher of biology John Dupré.
At Science, James Gunn on Isaac Asimov at 100. Asimov’s Foundationseries is being adapted for television by Apple. When science fiction gets things wrong, at The New Republic.
Times Literary SupplementreviewsJohn Gribbin’s and Lee Smolin’s new books on quantum mechanics. IAI TVinterviews philosopher of physics Tim Maudlin about the same subject.
There is a website devoted to the work of Australian Thomist Austin Woodbury.
At Church Life Journal, Shaun Blanchard on the smear word “Jansenist,” and Richard Yoder on a pope who was resisted.
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Darrell Rowbottom reviews K. Brad Wray’s Resisting Scientific Realism.
Fr. Mitch Pacwa interviews philosopher Jennifer Frey on EWTN Live.
James Franklin on Aquinas’s realism for The Sydney Realist.