Larry Arnhart has a good post today, providing another example of why I think Aquinas and Darwin would have gotten along quite well: Under the influence of Aristotle’s biology, Thomas concluded that, although only human beings act from “free” judgment, other animals act from “estimative” judgment about what will satisfy their desires. Thus all animals… Continue reading

Friday dose of Krauthammer: We had no idea how lucky we were with Sputnik. The subsequent panic turned out to be an enormous boon. The fear of falling behind the Communists induced the federal government to pour a river of money into science and math education. The result was a vast cohort of scientists who… Continue reading