God Bless Paul Harding: For three years, Paul Harding’s unpublished novel, “Tinkers,’’ sat in a drawer. The writer, a former Boston rock drummer who grew up in Wenham, had tried selling it, but nobody was interested. “I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll be a writer who doesn’t publish,’ ’’ Harding, 42, said this week, a day after… Continue reading
Memories from the Ward
(photo filtered by the author) Memories of the WarOn Monday I was in my father-in-law’s room at the Neurological Institute in Montreal, listening to him tell my wife, slowly, with two words or three when he could muster the breath, about the dates that his own father spent in concentration camps during the war.… Continue reading Memories from the Ward
Siris on Ed Feser on more about Thomism and ID.
The Times uncovers another case. Do you think they could’ve focused any closer on the pope’s signature? We get the message.
Ed Feser has a great dissection of the “Nothing but…” approach to philosophy and science. And that is, of course, exactly what the “mechanical” conception of the world that the early modern philosophers put in place of the Scholastics’ Aristotelian philosophy of nature made possible. The world was reconceived as a machine or collection of… Continue reading