Tag: Human Nature (book)
Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism
From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people.
#5 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Shapiro, Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life
Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try.
For Christmas, Make New Discoveries with Books from Discovery Institute Scientists and Scholars
There’s an inviting coziness about this time of year, perfect for shutting the computer down, putting the accursed iPhone away, and retreating to the beauty of printed pages.
David Berlinski on Europe, Entropy, Agnosticism
Berlinski tempts Peter Robinson to ask him whether he still considers himself an agnostic.
Berlinski, Robinson on the “Almost Unfathomable Complexity” of Living Systems, and More
The two also discuss discontinuities in the fossil record as well as Berlinski’s insistence that “any theory of natural selection must plainly meet what I have called a rule against deferred success.”