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A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation

Nancy R. Pearcey

A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation by peter singer yale university press, 70 pages, $22 Back when E. O. Wilson first promoted his newly hatched theory of sociobiology,...

I Take You …

Nancy R. Pearcey

For the Love of Children: Genetic Technology and the Future of the Family by ted peters westminster/john knox, 227 pages, $28.81 When seminary student Philip Holck got married, he...

Kitchen Table Talk

Nancy R. Pearcey

The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family by dana mack simon & schuster, 368 pages, $4.92 The principal of a Reform Jewish Sunday school in Connecticut...

DNA: The Message in the Message

Nancy R. Pearcey

Christians who work in the natural sciences are dogged by a persistent bogeyman: a singular creature called the God of the gaps. Should a believer ever conclude that natural...

The Remaking of a Marxist

Nancy R. Pearcey

The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Culture War by eugene d. genovese university of missouri press, 320 pages, $29.95 The South has conquered Washington, Michael Lind fumed...

Naturalism on Trial

Nancy R. Pearcey

Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education by phillip e. johnson intervarsity, 238 pages, $19.99 In Richard Rorty’s long march to becoming a...