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David S. Oderberg and others on free speech, in the new anthology Having Your Say: Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century, edited by J. R. Shackleton.

In First Things, William Lane Craig in quest of the historical Adam.  Christianity Todayinterviews Craig about his new book on the subject.

At Rolling Stone, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen on the release of two live albums and the prospect of a new album.  Fagen is interviewed at Varietyand the Tablet.  The Ringer on the Dan’s new following among millennials.  Elliot Scheiner on engineering Gaucho.

At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Jeffrey Hause reviews Tobias Hoffmann’s book Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy.

Michael Huemer is interviewed at What is It Like to Be a Philosopher?  Colin McGinn comments on the interview.

At Thomistica, Glen Coughlin on Charles De Koninck on metaphysics and natural philosophy.

The Daily Nousinterviews philosopher P. M. S. Hacker. 

At City Journal, Blake Smith on Christopher Lasch and Michel Foucault.  Michael Behrent on the real Foucault, at Dissent.

The Story of Marvel Studios is now out.  The authors are interviewed at Gizmodo.  Winter is Coming on five fascinating revelations from the book. 

The Guardian on the ideas and controversies of Steven Pinker.

Michael Blastland on William of Ockham, at Prospect. 

Joseph M. Bessette and J. Andrew Sinclair on public support for capital punishment, at RealClearPolicy.  Their more detailed report is available from the Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College.

At Public Discourse, Martin Rhonheimer on natural law and the right to private property.

John Whitfield on fraud, bias, negligence, and hype in science, at the London Review of Books.

At American Greatness, Michael Anton on Glenn Ellmers’ new book on Harry Jaffa.

Tad Schmaltz’s book The Metaphysics of the Material World: Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza is reviewed by Alison Peterman at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation comes to television.  Screen Rant on how the Apple TV series alters the original story.

At National Review, Carrie Gress on feminism and female unhappiness.  Scott Yenor calls for a sexual counter-revolution, at First Things.

Economist Philip Pilkington on how demographics could favor Republicans, at Newsweek.

Christopher Wolfe on John Rawls and natural law, at Public Discourse.

At New English Review, Kenneth Francis on the classic 1968 film The Swimmer and the problem of suffering. 

At Quillette, philosopher Michael Robillard on the incoherence of gender ideology.  Heterodorx interviews philosopher Alex Byrne.

Richard Marshall interviews philosopher Robert Gressis at 3:16.

At Pints with Aquinas, William Lane Craig and Jimmy Akin debate the kalām cosmological argument.

Jazzwise on the life and legend of Thelonious Monk.

From the Thomistic Institute, Fr. Thomas Joseph White lectures on Christ and the Old Testament in Aquinas.

Ruy Teixeira begs his fellow liberals to stop committing “the Fox News Fallacy.”  Liberal journalist Kevin Drum argues that it was liberals who started the culture wars.  Andrew Sullivan on the Left’s accelerating extremism.   A study on political polarization in the journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policyfinds that“the most liberal Democrats [express] the greatest dehumanization of Republicans.”  Glenn Greenwald on the increasing prevalence of smear tactics on the Left.  Freddie deBoer on the progressives’ politics of personal destruction.  At The Atlantic, Sally Satel on left-wing authoritarianism.

But has wokeness finally peaked?  Joel Kotkin on the growing backlash, at Spiked.  Bari Weiss calls for resistance at Commentary, on CNN, and at UnHerd.  Philosopher Arif Ahmed on fighting back against woke censorship at Cambridge.  Andrew Sullivan on emerging cracks in the woke elite.  Noah Rudnick on the right turn among Latino voters, at City Journal.

At Theology Unleashed, philosopher David Papineau and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor debate materialism.

Terry Teachout on film noir, at Commentary.  At Mystery & Suspense, Paul Haddad on film noir and Los Angeles.  Terry Gross interviews Eddie Muller about the lost world of film noir at NPR.


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