Do physics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and related fields of inquiry provide evidence for life after death? Dinesh D’Souza considers that question in his latest book . But as Joseph Bottum says in a review for National Review (sub. req.), D’Souza is out of his depth: Every once . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in The Weekly Standard , my editor Joseph Bottum encourages us to listen to the peculiar, poetic language of Christmas: [T]here is something more in Advent than just the happenstantial activity of our nativity language, something more than the plain task of getting across a complex seasonal . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has a lengthy profile of one of my intellectual heroes—Princeton professor and First Things advisory board member Robert George : For 20 years, George has operated largely out of public view at the intersection of academia, religion and politics. In the past 12 months, . . . . Continue Reading »
I had hoped that my senator, Ben Nelson from Nebraska, would stand up for the sanctity of life. His vote turned out to be decisive for moving the health care legislation forward in the Senate, and it looked as though he would hold out for something like the Stupak amendment to the Senate . . . . Continue Reading »
Copenhagen is over, and it is even less than met the eye yesterday. In fact, the “deal” isn’t even really a deal. From the story:After intense overnight wrangling, delegates from 192 countries on Saturday passed a motion simply “noting” a loose deal aimed at . . . . Continue Reading »
The NYT today profiles Princeton’s Robert P. George, The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker.HT: James . . . . Continue Reading »
Sigh. Even Native Americans are the bad guys when hysterical scientists start pounding the End Of the World Drum. A new study predicts that we will cause a mass extinction worse than what happened to the dinosaurs. From the story:The study of the fossil and archaeological record over the . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan says something that gets the wheels turning: At the moment, my side, the partisans of going after downscale voters first, is losing the argument to those who recommend going after the voters Michael Petrilli has described as ” Whole Foods Republicans .” What makes these voters . . . . Continue Reading »
The Romans built roads, the Greeks did philosophy, Americans don’t sleep much.Consuming worthwhile entertainment alone is a full time job: Netflix is calling me to watch the complete Shakespeare now. Add to that the temptation of the guilty pleasures of the new Dr. Who (the best new series of . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been warning that the politicization of science and the attempt to turn it into an ideology—even a religion—would badly undermine the public’s confidence. Indeed, I warned that the outrageous stem cell hyping, the global warming hysteria, and the clear suppression of . . . . Continue Reading »
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