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Argentine standoff: Pope Francis and the four cardinals, as reported by National Catholic Register and Catholic Herald.  Commentary from First Things and Bishop Athanasius Schneider.

Richard Dawkins misrepresents science, according to British scientists. 

Philosophy and laughs at Oxford with J. L. Austin, at Aeon.

Enter the Brotherhood of Steely Dan, at Vinyl Me, Please.  Live for Live Music looks back on Gaucho.

At Crisis magazine, Anthony Esolen asked: What will you do when persecution comes?  And then the persecutors came for Anthony Esolen, as reported by The American Conservative, National Review, Touchstone, and Catholic World Report.

Michael Lind on how science fiction fails us, at The Smart Set.

At Vanity Fair, Exorcist director William Friedkin on exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth.

To deal with ISIS, says the Archbishop of Canterbury, let’s start by admitting the obvious.

A new edition of The Gifts of the Holy Spirit by John of St. Thomas is forthcoming from Cluny Media.  A translation of Fr. Josef Kleutgen’s Pre-Modern Philosophy Defended is forthcoming from St. Augustine’s Press.

Simon Evnine’s Making Objects and Events: A Hylomorphic Theory of Artifacts, Actions, and Organismsis reviewed by Lynne Rudder Baker at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Bleeding Cool reviews the new book Art of Atari.

Catholic World Report on Anthony McCarthy’s new book Ethical Sex.

Matthew Levering’s Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth is reviewed by William Carroll at Public Discourse.

At BuzzFeed, how Trump advisor Steve Bannon sees the world.

Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University by Jon Shields and Joshua Dunn, Sr., is reviewed at the Claremont Review of Books.

The University Bookman on The War of the Worlds in H.G. Wells, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, and beyond.

At Public Discourse, Allison Postell reviews Jonathan Sanford’s Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics. 

Bill Maher, Michael Moore, and Slate Star Codex urge their fellow Trump critics to stop it with the PC bullshit already.
 
Real Clear Religion reports that Thomism is ready for its close-up.

James Gleick’s Time Travel: A History, reviewed at The New York Review of Books.

The late Scott Ryan, greatly missed friend of this blog, recorded an album, The Gift, before his death.  Scott’s wife Lilla has started a KickStarter campaign to get the album heard.

New from Stephen T. Davis: Rational Faith: A Philosopher's Defense of Christianity.

The Washington Post reviews Peter Ackroyd’s new book on Alfred Hitchcock.  An interview with Ackroyd at The University Bookman.  Los Angeles Review of Books on Stanley Kubrick. 

If, like me, you’ve spent a big chunk of your life hanging out in L.A. area bookstores that no longer exist, you’ll dig the Bookstore Memories blog.  (I remember well when Hollywood Boulevard was bookstore row.  You’d never know it today, alas.)