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A lecture by David Oderberg answering the question: Should there be freedom of dissociation?
Philosopher of physics Tim Maudlin defends the reality of time and change, at Quantamagazine.
At The Weekly Standard, Camille Paglia on Trump, transgenderism, and terrorism.
Why is there more disagreement in philosophy than in science?  Maybe because philosophy is just harder, suggests David Papineau in the Times Literary Supplement.Ross and Kripke revisited: In a YouTube video, Peter Dillard responds to my recent post responding to his ACPQarticle.

Joshua Hochschild on Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Nausée, at First Things.
The Dialogos Institute is hosting a colloquium on the doctrine of Limbo in Ramsgate, England later this month.
The continuing travails of Marvel Comics: Social justice warriors are burning their comics.  A politically driven series is cancelled due to poor sales.  Bad business decisions are taking a toll across the line.
The Guardian asks: What was it like to be Richard Wagner? 
And what about his buddy Friedrich Nietzsche?  Times Literary Supplement on some recent books.
At City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple on Paul Hollander on why so many intellectuals love dictators. 
In the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Ben Page proposes an answer to the Euthyphro dilemma.
Politico on why liberals aren’t as tolerant as they think they are.
In related news: Duke theology professor Paul Griffiths, facing disciplinary action for calling diversity training a waste of time, has resigned. 
More related news: Mark Steyn on the poisoning of Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer by social justice warriors.
Yet more related news: At Bleeding Heart Libertarians, Jason Brennan on the latest attack on free expression within academic philosophy.
Raymond Tallis on time and physics, Daniel Robinson, Luciano Floridi, and Murillo Pagnotta on information, Stephen Talbott on evolution and purpose, and more in the latest issue of The New Atlantis.
At Public Discourse, philosopher John Skalko on why there are only two sexes.
Michael Pakaluk on Trump, Pope Francis, and the Paris climate agreement: How should Catholics respond?
Gregory Reichberg’s Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace is reviewed atNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Boston Review on a new book on the obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick.
Quartz asks: Was Descartes’ most famous idea anticipated by St. Teresa of Avila?
Every Catholic theologian and philosopher should own a copy.  At Rorate Caeli, Peter Kwasniewski reports on a new reprint of Scheeben’s classic work of Thomistic theology.
At the APA blog, video of a discussion with philosopher Nancy Cartwright and physicists George Ellis and Michael Duff on causality and unexplained events.
According to Catholic World Report, Thomas Aquinas College is looking to open a campus in Massachusetts. 
The sexual revolution eats its own.  Maggie Gallagher at The Stream on a new controversy over Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.”
At First Things, Matthew Schmitz argues that Pope Francis is burying Pope Benedict.
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Tom Christiano reviewsJason Brennan’s Against Democracy.
At Thomistica.net, Robert Barry on how to listen to heretics before burning them.
Graham Oppy on William Lane Craig’s God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.