My colleague Amanda Shaw has a nice review of Leszek Kołakowski’s philosophical primer Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? in the new July/August issue of Touchstone. The review isn’t available online, but do check it out if you find a copy of Touchstone. For more on Kołakowski’s book, see Fr. Neuhaus’ comments in the Public Square of our April 2008 issue.

From the man who brought us great works of apologetics, refutations of relativism, and A Summa of the Summa, comes I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing. Kreeft’s new book is released tomorrow, but here’s sneak peak at the introduction:

Non-Introduction

This book is for three kinds of people:
1. for curious non-surfers, it is a confession;
2. for surfers, it is a manifesto;
3. for wannabe surfers, it is a practical beginners’ handbook.

Why should you read this book?

Because surfing makes you so ridiculously happy that it makes you happy just to read about it, and it makes me happy just to write about it.

If that’s not a good enough reason, go enjoy your misery.

Good introductions should be short.