Tomorrow, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up the Pride in Patent Ownership Act. With the government’s budget still to be resolved by the lame-duck Congress, one might wonder what ...

Dialectica, Vol. 61, No. 3, Affective Intentionality and Practical Rationality (2007), pp. 417-446 (30 pages) Within the debate on the epistemology of aesthetic appreciation, it has a long tradition, ...

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Since the 1960s, mixing rock and roll with politics and religion has produced moments of exquisite silliness. Consider Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors. “When I was back there in seminary school ...

Christopher Nolan‘s movies are usually cold and clever in equal doses, but “Interstellar” shakes up that pattern: A genuinely moving spectacle about the perils of discovery and survival, Nolan’s ...

Judy Blume is one of the most popular young adult novelists of all time, which makes it something of a surprise that almost none of her works have been given the feature-length treatment. Discounting ...

A friend commented about the LGBTQ controversy recently. He has family members who are homosexual and they are furious with the Catholic Church, saying, “Who are they to define marriage?” In ...