Caught in the web

Many of you will have heard the awful news already.  Longtime blogger Zippy Catholic has died.
David Oderberg’s new book Opting Out: Conscience and Cooperation in a Pluralistic Society has just been published by the Institute of Economic Affairs.
At the Daily Intelligencer , the liberal Andrew Sullivan on the dangerously illiberal tendencies currently unfolding within the Democratic Party. 
At Five Books, Peter Hacker on the best books on Wittgenstein . The Writing Cooperative on how Isaac Asimov wrote so much.  At The American Conservative, Bradley Birzer on Ray Bradbury’s politics.  Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle returns for a third season.
Brian Besong’s Manual Recovery Projectaims to bring important Neo-Scholastic manuals of philosophy and theology back into print.  Ford and Kelly’s superb two-volume Contemporary Moral Theology is among the works now at last available again.
At Public Discourse, Thomas Pink argues in defense of Catholic integralism.
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Matthew Kostelecky reviews Michael Gorman’s book on Aquinas and the hypostatic union.
The Claremont Review of Books on René Girard.
Prof. John McAdams and academic freedom have prevailed in the courts over Marquette University.  National Review reports .
At Commentary, Gary Saul Morson on atheism and Bolshevik totalitarianism .
Seven things you might not know about F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, at FEE.
He replaced one-sided propaganda with… one-sided propaganda.  Slateon Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
Philosophy and physics are in focus at the website A Pythagorean Universe.
Was John Rawls a socialist?  Jacobin investigates .
Barney Hoskyns’ new book Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion is reviewed at The Washington Post.  Guitarist Jay Graydon on his famous solo on “Peg.”
The Times Literary Supplement on J. L. Austin, philosopher of common sense.
Scientific American on the difficult birth of the “many worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Also at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Jennifer Frey reviews James Doyle’s new book on Elizabeth Anscombe.
If you’re into ontological investigations, you’ll like the blog Ontological Investigations .
Ars Technica , NPR, and The Daily Beast on the death of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko.  Comics writer Chris Ryall reports on some words of wisdom from Ditko: “Anti-clarity… [is] anti-mind.”
The New Atlantis on Errol Morris on Thomas Kuhn.
Where else would we get blog post titles?  In defense of puns, at Quartz.
A rare 1990 audio interview with Robert Nozick has been posted at YouTube .
At Time, Heather Mac Donald on how colleges create delusional, thuggish ideologues.
In the National Catholic Register, E. Christian Brugger on the limits of papal authority.  In First Things, Russell Hittinger on the Spirit of Vatican I.  Jonathan Last reports on the sorry state of the Catholic Church , at The Weekly Standard.
If you’ve only seen the Ant Man movies, you don’t know the whole story.  Polygon on the shocking truth about Marvel’s Hank Pym .
Jim Holt on the feud between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr., at Lapham’s Quarterly.
The Weekly Standard on John Coltrane and the end of jazz .
Carl Trueman on Aquinas among the Protestants , at Public Discourse.
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