Tag: John Adams
A Darwinist Deconstructs the Declaration of Independence
Yuval Noah Harari quickly gets down to business, unsentimentally shredding Jefferson’s noble phrases.
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.
At the Foundations of Science: Respect and Seeking to Understand
I’ve been reading the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — with its interesting argument by Jefferson for design in nature as a scientific inference.
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.