Tales from the links

An interview with philosopher William Simpson about Aristotle and quantum mechanics, at the Wolfson College Cambridge website.

Fr. John Naugle’s censored interview on the grave injustice of lockdowns.  Spiked on the damage that lockdowns have inflicted on the working class.  The BBC on the damage lockdowns have done to the education and mental health of children.  A new study finds that the more severe lockdowns have had no significant benefits.

At PREVIEWSworld, Grant Geissman discusses his gargantuan new book The History of EC Comics.  Mark Judge on EC Comics and the pulp takeover of American culture, at First Things.

Richard Marshall interviews philosopher Richard Swinburne at 3:16.

Helen Pluckrose has founded the Counterweight project to offer legal advice and intellectual resources to those under pressure from “Critical Social Justice” fanatics in the workplace and at schools and universities.  The Times reports that the organization has been inundated with requests for help.  Psychology Today identifies ten signs that you’re being canceled.

Heidegger in China, at the Los Angeles Review of Books.  Bishop Robert Barron on Foucault’s unwelcome return to France in American drag, at Catholic World Report.

At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher interviews the Hillbilly Thomists.

At Public Discourse, Gerard Bradley on Catholic schools and transgender students.  The University of Dallas resists activist pressure.  Spiked on the pushback among feminists.

At BackReaction, Sabine Hossenfelder on the pseudoscientific simulation hypothesis.  At Forbes, Ethan Siegel asks whether spacetime is real.

Jonathan Church’s book Reinventing Racism is reviewed at Quillette.  At Substack, John McWhorter on the racism masquerading as anti-racism.

Nautilus on why computers will never write good novels.

Theologian John Joy’s Zoom lecture on the assent owed to non-infallible teachings of the Magisterium, at YouTube.

James Hanink reviews The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics, at Lex Naturalis.

Vulture interviews the Doobie Brothers’ Michael McDonald.

Trevor Merrill on Milan Kundera, at The University Bookman.

The revolution in comics started by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko turns 60.  Collected Editions reports that Marvel will celebrate by reprinting every comic book they released in August 1961 in a single omnibus volume.  A new book on Lee publicizes the longstanding controversy over who deserves the bulk of the credit.  A new book on Ditko sheds light on the notoriously reclusive artist.

The Nation on the war over Christopher Hitchens’ biography.

Aeon on philosopher Susan Stebbing.

Los Angeles Review of Books on Ray Bradbury at 100.  Inverse argues that 1995’s Screamers is the most faithful Philip K. Dick movie adaptation.

Michael Lind on the new American ruling class, at the Tablet.  Glenn Greenwald on where the true threat of authoritarianism in the U.S. is coming from, at Substack.

At First Things, Stanley Payne on the road to the Spanish civil war. 

Modern family: Political scientist Scott Yenor on the long march from marriage to autonomy, at RealClearBooks.

Los Angeles’ most notorious unsolved murder.  CrimeReads on the case of the Black Dahlia.

National Review on Roger Scruton’s book on Wagner’s Parsifal. 

Denis Noble on evolution and teleology, at Inference.

Catherine Peters on Aquinas, Geach, and goodness, in the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

The Guardian reports that after five decades, Harlan Ellison’s notoriously unfinished Last Dangerous Visions anthology may finally be published.  Neil Gaiman confirms Ellison’s famous dead gopher story. 

At The Orthosphere, Prof. Thomas F. Bertonneau says farewell to what remains of higher education: Part I and Part II.