At the Claremont Review of Books, Joseph M. Bessette sets out a critique of the Eastman memos.
Aidan Nichols on the Herbert McCabe he knew, at The Lamp.
At UnHerd, Thomas Fazi and Toby Green make the left-wing case against vaccine mandates. At The Tablet, Alex Gutentag on the continual, unacknowledged, shifts in expert opinion about Covid-19. “Mandatory panic”: Freddie deBoer on Covid as the liberal 9/11. A Johns Hopkins University study concludes that lockdowns did no good and caused much damage.
One famed cartoonist’s graphic novel about another. Forbes on the strange story of The Strange Death of Alex Raymond. At The Nation, J. Hoberman reviewsPaul Hirsch’s Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism.
Tim Crane on why science can’t state all the facts, at IAI.
At The European Conservative, Hélène de Lauzun on the myth that medieval Europeans believed the Earth to be flat.
James Dominic Rooney on “Being a ‘not-quite-Buddhist theist,’” in Religious Studies.
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Bryan Reece reviewsDavid Charles’ book The Undivided Self: Aristotle and the ‘Mind-Body’ Problem.
At Substack, Richard Hanania on why liberals have come to view Russia as the Great Satan.
John Tierney on alcohol and civilization, at City Journal.
Thomas Chatterton Williams on encountering Thomas Sowell, at AIER.
Don Devine on the conservative debate over John Locke, at The American Spectator.
Cathy Young on when the transgender movement jumped the shark, at Arc Digital. At Areo, Richard Dawkins on why sex is pretty damn binary. Philosopher and U.S. Army veteran Michael Robillard on transgenderism in the military.
New papers by Thomas Pink: “Final Causation”and “On Dignitatis Humanae: A Reply to Thomas Storck.”
At The Postliberal Order, Chad Pecknold on the therapists of decline and Patrick Deneen on conservatism as hospice care.
Francis Sempa on Spengler, Toynbee, Burnham, and the decline of the West, at The University Bookman. At The New Criterion, Andrew Roberts considers what a world without the West would have been like.
In Religious Studies, Enric Gel asks: “How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer.”
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus at 100: a symposium at IAI.
A conference on Second Scholasticism, Analytical Metaphysics, and Christian Apologeticswas hosted by the Catholic Theological Faculty in Prague last October, with presentations by Gyula Klima, Michael Gorman, and many others. Via YouTube, you can still watch the first, second, and third sessions.
The Pull Request interviews historian Niall Ferguson: part 1 and part 2.
At 3:16, Richard Marshall interviews Benjamin Lipscomb about his book The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics. The book is reviewed at Prospect.
On the Classical Theism Podcast, John DeRosa interviews James Dolezal about the Trinity and divine simplicity, Chris Tomaszewski about divine simplicity and William Lane Craig, and John Knasas about Aquinas’s metaphysics.
The story behind Steely Dan's “Rikki Don't Lose That Number,” at Far Out. Vulture on how the Eagles’ Don Henley almost did vocals for Steely Dan’s “Peg.”
Yujin Nagasawa is interviewed at What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
Commonweal on Pope Pius XII and John Courtney Murray. At Eerdword, Matthew Levering discusseshis new book The Abuse of Conscience: A Century of Catholic Moral Theology.
At UnHerd, philosopher Arif Ahmed on how our universities became sheep factories. At Spiked, Ahmed on how Cambridge University uncancelled Jordan Peterson. At the National Post, Peterson on why he is no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto.
Connor Grubaugh on Hannah Arendt on anti-racism as a totalitarian ideology, at the Tablet. Critical Race Theory indoctrination: the kids don’t like it, reports Robby Soave at Reason. John McWhorter, author of Woke Racism, is interviewed about the book and about Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi. At The Upheaval, N. S. Lyons argues that woke insanity is nowhere close to being over.
Australian Catholic University has launched the Ethics Finder website. A video explains.
At The Spectator, Sam Leith argues that the modern economy is built on addiction.