Return of the missing links

My Christmas gift to you, dear readers – a revival of the blog’s “links of interest” posts, by popular demand.  Let’s get to it:

J.P. Andrew interviews Rob Koons and Daniel Bonevac about their two forthcoming books on Aquinas’s Five Ways.

At The New Yorker, Rachel Aviv reveals that neurologist Oliver Sacks made up many of the details of his famous case studies.

Sohrab Ahmari on the late Norman Podhoretz, at UnHerd.

At Fusion, Oliver Traldi on John Searle’s forgotten book The Campus War.

Jacob Savage on the lost generation that DEI created, at Compact.

At Aeon, James Read on why we need the philosophy of physics.

Charles Fain Lehman on James Q. Wilson’s Thinking about Crime at 50, at City Journal.

The New Criterion notes the passing of David Pryce-Jones.

At Religious Studies, David Oderberg on “Miracles and the Wooden Leg Problem.”

Philip Clark on Steely Dan at the New York Review of Books.

Michael Devitt’s Biological Essentialism is reviewed by Marshall Abrams at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

The late science fiction writer Michael F. Flynn, longtime friend of this blog, is remembered at the Prometheus Blog.  Also, check out Mike’s entry at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and his blog, which is occasionally updated by his family.

Ed Simon on buying more books than one can read, at Literary Hub. 

Robert Zaretsky on the life and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer, at The American Scholar. 

At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Fraser MacBride reviews the third volume of Scott Soames’s The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy.

Daniel Flynn’s new book on Frank S. Meyer is reviewed by Michael New, at Public Discourse.

At City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple on authoritarianism in Britain.

Michael Gorman recommends five books on metaphysics.  I’m honored that my Scholastic Metaphysics makes the list.  (Note, dear reader, that there remain three shopping days until Christmas!)