My colleague Amanda Shaw has a nice review of Leszek KoÅ‚akowski’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 KoÅ‚akowski’s book, see Fr. Neuhaus’ comments in the Public Square of our April 2008 issue.
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