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At The New York Review of Books, Thomas Nagel reviews Daniel Dennett’s new book From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds.
Charles Murray versus the campus brownshirts: His personal account of the Two Hours Hate at Middlebury.  Commentary from Noah Millman at The Week, Ronald Radosh at The Daily Beast, Peter Beinart at The Atlantic, and Peter Wood at The Federalist.
At Physics Today, physicist Richard Muller says that the flow of time is not an illusion.Psychology Today interviews philosopher Susan Haack.

A Christian’s job interview, with comedian Tracey Ullman.
Computer scientist and conservative thinker David Gelernter interviewed at The Atlantic.
At the Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion Forum, a Q&A with philosopher Rondo Keele, author of Ockham Explained.
Science fiction meets Aristotelian causality.  The latest from Michael Flynn, in the March/April issue of Analog.  Reviewed here.
At The New York Times, conservative philosopher Roger Scruton on human nature.  Scruton’s new book on the subject is reviewed by James Ryerson.   And at The New Criterion, Scruton on populism.
Interview with Fr. Thomas Joseph White about the second edition of his book Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology.
Uh oh.  Early reviews indicate that with the Netflix series Iron Fist, Marvel’s finally blown it.
At Catholic World Report, philosopher Joseph Trabbic on Vatican II and the Catholic state.  And at Public Discourse, Trabbic defends Plato’s Republic.
YouTube video of philosophers John Searle and Luciano Floridi discussing artificial intelligence.
Conrad Black on Judge Richard Posner, in The New Criterion.
As any mu major dude would tell you, if there were such a thing as a greatest Steely Dan song ever, this might be it.  The making of “Deacon Blues.”  Then there’s Anthony Robustelli’s new book Steely Dan FAQ .
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic, edited by Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Stephen Read’s, is reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Turns out right-wingers are better looking than left-wingers.  Hey, it’s science.
Give ‘em an F.  Moronic university students demand the exclusion of Plato and Aristotle from the curriculum.
At the New York Review of Books, physicist Steven Weinberg on the trouble with quantum mechanics.
On the heels of the excellent Man in the High Castle: Amazon will be streaming a Philip K. Dick anthology series.
Also at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Steven Jensen reviews Riccardo Saccenti’s Debating Medieval Natural Law and Paul Symington reviews Anthony Lisska’s Aquinas's Theory of Perception.
One more from The New Criterion: The career of Vatican Latinist Reginald Foster.
Trabbic on Trump and the travel ban, also at Public Discourse.
Better bring a bathrobe.  The Independent on the hotel room without walls. 
Two more from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: a review of Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology and a review of Brian Davies’ Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: A Guide and Commentary.
You be willin’.  Philosopher Alfred Mele defends free will.
A “disastrous papacy,” concludes Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture.  A Church “in de facto schism,” judges E. Christian Brugger at Public Discourse.  A “full-blown civil war over doctrine,” says Dan Hitchens at the Catholic Herald.  Even progressive theologian Fr. Timothy Radcliffe urges the pope to engage the dubia.  At First Things, Fr. John Hunwicke reminds us of why we have popes in the first place, and Matthew Schmitz awaits a young one.