April 2019

A Decent Life by Todd May

There has been a long standing tension within religious outlooks over the centuries. This is between embracing the world and denying it. Ascetics within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam consider the world corrupted and tainted with sin, that it is literally and spiritually filthy. It makes perfect sense on this account to detach oneself, live in […]

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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Familiar genres of fiction such as historical, adventure, romance, and crime are being supplemented by new categories. This is presumably because there is no escape from the marketing drive towards ‘product development’, nor an end to the ceaseless human desire for novelty. Recent examples have been ‘chick lit’ to satisfy young female interest, and ‘misery

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Vices of the Mind by Quassim Cassam

Of all the species known to have existed on planet Earth, 99% are now extinct. and (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/extinction/massext/statement_03.html) There is no adequate reason to believe our species will defy the odds. Humans will suffer extinction either by environmental catastrophe, global pandemic, asteroid (or similar) impact, substitution by artificial intelligence or self destruction. Two recent books make

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