Rather than post each chapter audio file to Doctor Janeway individually, which doesn’t make sense given that they are now all available on the book site’s front page, I’m linking to the entire thing here. (scroll down to the bottom of the page) Siris has already started listening, for one.
Joseph Bottum on the death of Richard Rorty: The iconic status he achieved is difficult now to understand. The frisson of postmodernism in its early days had something to do with, as did Rorty’s claim to be the last true heir of the American pragmatist tradition, the mantle falling to him from the shoulders of… Continue reading
I’m currently reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (based on his Gifford Lectures)–which is a rather dry title for a book that looks at the fascinating history behind philosophy since Aquinas in the Middle Ages. It’s become sort of a cliche, I know, about philosophy these days that, in stark contrast to… Continue reading
Very interesting debate between Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath (and it’s a pity Dawkins didn’t use this in his final program). Also a pity Google video doesn’t allow embedding the way Youtube does…
Victor Davis Hanson: We need to confess that the jihadists are not only keen students of insurgency warfare, but good observers of the American psyche. We think their kidnapping, childish infomercials, gruesome tactics, and horrific websites are primordial and counterproductive; but they are more likely horrifically simple in inciting the most basic fears and self-preservation… Continue reading