Category: Culture
A Theoretical Astrophysicist Illustrates Why There Are Almost No Genuine Atheists
Perhaps there should be some sort of qualifying exam.
In Praise of Jacques Barzun
When Barzun received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, if not physically present at least a good many of us were there in high spirit and hearty assent.
Darwinism and Its Discontents
A thoughtful and honest essay by James Wood in The New Yorker asks “Is That All There Is?”
Tisha b’Av: Mourning the Veil over Nature’s Design
Today is the 9th day in the Hebrew month of Av, a mourning day in Judaism called Tisha b’Av, meaning simply “9th of Av.”
What We Argue About When We Argue About Evolution
Among hot-button controversies of the day, Darwinian evolution may be unique in being a question on which people express forceful opinions all the time, at high levels of the media and politics, all under a protocol where it’s the norm to have not even a basic idea what you’re talking about.