David Marshall

For most of the past three years, I have helped run a program for high school students in Hunan Province, China, who wish to study in American universities. During this time, the China Dream propaganda campaign has been in full swing. It touts virtues such as “harmony,” “democracy,” and . . . . Continue Reading »

Historians of God most often gather to bury, rather than praise, their Creator; Karen Armstrong, Pascal Boyer, and Daniel Dennett being recent examples. Robert Wright offers an interesting break in the pattern with The Evolution of God. Wright, in his own way, is solidly in the materialist camp. In an earlier book he told how, like E.O. Wilson, he abandoned his Southern Baptist roots when he discovered evolution and recognized its power to tell the story of life… Continue Reading »

The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage by Norman Girardot University of California Press. 861 pp. $75 Few enterprises have provoked as much ingenious skepticism in modern times as the attempt to translate spiritual truths between cultures. Émile Durkheim, . . . . Continue Reading »