Magpies, Verbal Jugglers, and True Liberty
The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium by John of Salisbury, translated by Daniel McGarry Paul Dry Books, 2009. Paperback, 305 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Jared Zimmerer In an age of relativism and scientific...
Discerning the Real
The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism by D. C. Schindler. New Polity Press, 2021. Hardcover, 349 pages, $45. Reviewed by John Ehrett D. C. Schindler’s new volume The Politics of the Real is one of the most stimulating works of...
Ignorant Armies
Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters by Deborah Stone. W. W. Norton, 2021. Hardcover, 291 pages, $27. Reviewed by Michial Farmer “What, then, is truth?” Nietzsche sneers in his essay “On Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense.” A mobile army of...
Nerve Plasm Palpitations?
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia S. Churchland W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Hardback, $27.95 Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl A caveat to a common reader who might think to read Patricia Churchland’s Conscience: The Origins of Moral...
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