Auld links syne

Get your geek on.  Blade Runner 2049 will be out in 2017.  So will Iron Fist, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Alien: Covenant, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Defenders, and Thor: Ragnarok.  Season 2 of The Man in the High Castle is already here.

Bioteaching lists the top books in philosophy of science of 2016.

The 2017 Dominican Colloquium in Berkeley will take place July 12-15.  The theme is Person, Soul and Consciousness.  Speakers include Lawrence Feingold, Thomas Hünefeldt, Steven Long, Nancey Murphy, David Oderberg, Ted Peters, Anselm Ramelow, Markus Rothhaar, Richard Schenk, D. C. Schindler, Michael Sherwin, Eleonore Stump, and Thomas Weinandy.

 
Prospect interviews David Oderberg on the subject of “three-parent babies.”

R. D. Ingthorsson’s book McTaggart's Paradox is reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

New from Encounter Books: Neven Sesardic’s When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics.

Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke discuss the moon landings as they happen.  How Isaac Asimov was so prolific.

Lenin, Gramsci, and all that: Angelo Codevilla on the origins of political correctness, in the Claremont Review of Books.

If you really care about the poor, you should oppose the sexual revolution.  Dorothy Day knew that, as Dan Hitchens explains at First Things.

The First Aquinas Winter School organized by the Institute of Thomistic Philosophy will take place February 17 - 22 in Eichstätt, Germany.  The topic is Dualism and Hylemorphism in the Philosophy of Mind and the invited teachers are Uwe Meixner and Klaus Obenauer. 

 At Public Discourse, R. J. Snell on C. S. Lewis and natural law.

City Journal on the left-wing war on science.  Jerry Coyne on how his fellow leftists reject science when it conflicts with egalitarian dogma.

The Economist on what the West has gained from Christianity.

Also at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Richard Cross reviews Jeffrey Brower’s Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World.

David Albert Jones on the injustice of destroying embryonic human beings, at Mercatornet.  David Mills responds to Jones’s critics at Human Life Review.

The College Fixreports that conservative philosopher Daniel Bonevac will, after thirty years, no longer be teaching his Contemporary Moral Problems course.  Interview with Bonevac at Fox News Insider.

Sir Roger Scruton on the music of the avant-garde.

Liberal professor Mark Lilla argues that campus identity politics is dooming liberal causes, at The Chronicle of Higher Education.  Lilla’s new book on reactionary politics is reviewed at The New Criterion.

Can a serious philosopher resort to humor?  Serious philosopher Susan Haack thinks so.

At The Washington Post, astronomer Howard Smith argues for the specialness of mankind.

The Weekly Standard on the failings of Evelyn Waugh.

It begins with butthurt and quickly progresses to complete disconnect from reality.  It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome (a “high energy” analogue of Bush Derangement Syndrome).  Get diagnosed by Roger Kimball at PJ Mediaor by Justin Raimondo at the Los Angeles Times. 

Speaking of complete disconnect from reality: what progressivism has come to, in a nutshell. 

The Claremont Review of Books on the elitism of art critic Robert Hughes.

Mike Flynn at The TOF Spot continues to blog the Crusades. 

In The Tablet, two articles by philosopher John Haldane on the election of Donald Trump.  (You’ll need to register to read them.)