Tag: Soviet Union
Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later
Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer.
Joshua Swamidass and the Cancellation of Christian Colleges
The only way to truth in science is to permit and even encourage challenges to orthodoxy.
Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity
Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism.
From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Advice for Intelligent Design Dissidents
Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel.
Intelligent Design’s Yellow Star: Journal’s Disclaimer Refutes a Common Criticism of ID
Critics of intelligent design (ID) often lecture ID proponents that they are free to submit their work to any scientific journal.