Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by steven pinker viking, 576 pages, $35 Steven Pinker, as his blurb reminds us, has been reckoned by Time magazine among the “hundred most influential people in the world today.” In Enlightenment Now he devotes . . . . Continue Reading »
According to Steven Pinker, God must be either a do-gooder or a do-nothing—there is no room in his worldview for divine, inscrutable ways. Continue Reading »
It was the issue of abortion that taught me to be suspicious of the word “reform.” It was the early 1960s and all right-minded people were in favor of “abortion reform.” I assumed I should be too until it gradually dawned on me, slow learner that I was, that people speaking of abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
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