Anna Krylov warns of the growing politicization of science, in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Nautilus on the sometimes contradictory scientific literature.
At Rolling Stone, hear David Crosby sing Donald Fagen’s new song “Rodriguez for a Night.”
The Spectator on a new biography of Kurt Gödel.
At the Claremont Review of Books, Joseph M. Bessette on Barack Obama’s latest memoir.
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, edited by William Simpson, Robert Koons, and Nicholas Teh, is now available in open access.
Joseph Trabbic reviews a recent translation of Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning and End of Wisdom, at Catholic World Report.
The New Criterion on the triumph of Thomas Sowell.
Prospect on why George Berkeley was less radical than he seems.
The Guardian reports on a lost memoir that paints an unflattering portrait of John Locke.
Larry Chapp on D. C. Schindler on liberalism and integralism, at Catholic World Report.
Mark Regnerus on the privatization of marriage, at Public Discourse. At The Spectator, Mary Harrington argues that a sexual counterrevolution is on its way.
Collider on the thirtieth anniversary of The Rocketeer.
Tyler Cowen says that economics is failing us, at Bloomberg.
The crises of the West. At Substack, N. S. Lyons reflects on the upheaval in France and raises four big questions for the counter-revolution.
The Guardian reports that Richard Dawkins has lost his Humanist of the Year title over trans comments. Alexander Riley on the war on sex, at The American Mind. Mary Eberstadt on the trans-kid craze, at the Claremont Review of Books.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute rounds up some reviews of Sohrab Ahmari’s The Unbroken Thread.
Meet the new Journal of Controversial Ideas. Daniel Kaufman commentsat The Electric Agora. Also, Kaufman on twenty-five things everyone used to understand.
The latest at John DeRosa’s Classical Theism podcast: Christopher Tomaszewski on the immateriality of the intellect and modal collapse; W. Matthews Grant on free will and divine causality; Matthew Minerd on Garrigou-Lagrange and the principle of finality; and much more.
At Quadrant, James Franklin reconstructs Jesus Christ’s PhD dissertation.
Michael Pakaluk on John Rawls and the rejection of truth, at Law and Liberty.
At YouTube, Gaven Kerr discusses classical theism and divine simplicity and Kerr and Ryan Mullins debate the divine nature.
The haunted imagination of Alfred Hitchcock, at the New Republic.
Philosopher Charlie Huenemann on the twilight of the idols of good writing.
Robert Royal on the late Jude Dougherty, at The Catholic Thing.
At Philosophical Studies, Ben Page on power-ing up neo-Aristotelian natural goodness.
On Pints With Aquinas, Janet Smith and Fr. Gregory Pine debate the ethics of lying.
David Noe and Jeff Winkle carry out an ongoing discussion about classical civilization atthe Ad Navseam podcast.
“When you measure, include the measurer.” The Spectator reports that MC Hammer defends philosophy against scientism.
At Public Discourse, Matthew Berry on nominalism, nihilism, and modern politics. Patrick Deneen on Michael Sandel and a tyranny without tyrants, at American Affairs.