Over the years, I did my best to set Dick right about Gadamer.… Read the rest

Instead of building a body of knowledge, the field wanders in circles, bending with fashions and pronouncements of gurus.… Read the rest

Mill. Mill is forgotten? Who knew?… Read the rest

Leon Kass has a problem not just with longevity and health but with the modern conception of freedom. … Read the rest

That’s why they can be nudged in socially desirable directions.… Read the rest

A Sunday laugh.… Read the rest

Ruthless bastard.… Read the rest

Marriage and family way important, he says. Celibate priests are authorities on this.… Read the rest

The police congratulated him on what he had done. ‘They are men and know what honour is,’ he said. … Read the rest

Watchdog accuses church of using dogma to oppose all forms of research on embryos.… Read the rest

What tools does a sociologist bring to a book about Rorty that an intellectual historian wouldn’t?… Read the rest

Lecturing is one thing, an honor is another.… Read the rest

Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts, but thirty years on, Said still dominates debate.… Read the rest

He blames American news networks for creating shows about stupid people yelling at each other.… Read the rest

Rorty concluded that there is no position outside historically situated language games from which to distinguish mind from world. … Read the rest

Washington University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate. Yes really.… Read the rest

The pro-choice lobby has no pulpits to marshal its troops.… Read the rest

‘You are a politician as much as a priest, but no one has elected you.’… Read the rest

‘If Christians really believed in the mystery of God, we would realise that proper talk about God is always tentative.’… Read the rest

‘Have you ever met anyone who believes what Richard Dawkins doesn’t believe in?’ Yes.… Read the rest