Russians take positions to the extreme. As a result, Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may lead—and in Russia’s case, really did. The English prided themselves on moderation and suspicion of radical abstractions, but Russians regarded anything short of ultimate positions as . . . . Continue Reading »
RJ Snell joins the podcast to discuss his new book Lost in the Chaos. Continue Reading »
The Wanting Seed is a guide for understanding our world today—especially the realities and implications of modern materialism, empiricism, urbanization, and utilitarianism. Continue Reading »
Irish culture no longer supports any intelligence of the transcendent. Continue Reading »
A. N. Wilson's biography of Charles Darwin freely criticizes the scientist and his theories—and committed evolutionists are enraged. Continue Reading »
We should imagine ourselves not as genetically enhanced superheroes or congealed stardust, but as the stuff from which God became incarnate among us. Continue Reading »
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by lawrence m. krauss free press, 204 pages, $24.99 Acritic might reasonably question the arguments for a divine first cause of the cosmos. But to ask “What caused God?” misses the whole reason classical . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else. The most obvious measure of comparative superiority was with Europe, the place where, through most of the nation’s history, most people came from and against which they assessed their achievements. The protean . . . . Continue Reading »
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31. For two hundred years materialist philosophers have argued that man is some sort of machine. The claim began with French materialists of the Enlightenment such as Pierre Cabanis, Julien La Mettrie, and Baron d’Holbach (La Mettrie even wrote . . . . Continue Reading »
In a retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books, Harvard Genetics Professor Richard Lewontin tells how he first met Sagan at a public debate in Arkansas in 1964. The two young scientists had been coaxed by senior colleagues to go to Little Rock to debate the . . . . Continue Reading »
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