Author: David Berlinski
Letter from Paris: The Bells Are Silent
I would go into the cathedral and light a candle for M.-P. Schützenberger. He had wished to return as one of the gargoyles, and, perhaps, he had.
A One-Man Clade
Had Stephen Meyer better appreciated the tools of modern cladistics, Nick Matzke believes, he would not have drawn the conclusions that he did in his book Darwin’s Doubt, or argued as he had.
A Graduate Student Writes
Having for years defended Darwin’s theory, Nick Matzke has determined to learn something about it as a graduate student at UC Berkeley, an undertaking in the right spirit but the wrong order.
The Ineffable Higgs
The image appropriate to physics in the 20th century is Brueghel’s Tower of Babel.
A Flower of Chivalry: Berlinski on Hitchens, 1949-2011
“Advancing calmly toward death” in full public view, his friends and retainers at his side, “proud of having been the instrument of the final, the fugitive, the anachronistic triumph of honor.”