Gods and Gardens
Anthony Gottlieb on Gods and Gardens. In 1944 John Wisdom, an aptly named British philosopher, wrote a parable about a garden. It took up just a few paragraphs of an intricate essay in a professional journal, but it seeded a [...]
The Multiverse
Looking for Life in the Multiverse. The laws of physics—and in particular the constants of nature that enter into those laws, such as the strengths of the fundamental forces—might therefore seem finely tuned to make our existence possible. Short of [...]
Moving Slowly
Evangelicals move, slowly, toward the intellectual life. On Dec. 8, some of America’s brightest contemporary intellectuals gathered at the New School to discuss the tenuous relationship between “Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual.” Sponsored by Brooklyn-based literary magazine n+1, the panel [...]
California
The Claremont Review of Books has more on the sorry state of affairs in California.