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A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation

Nancy R. Pearcey

Back when E. O. Wilson first promoted his newly hatched theory of sociobiology, protesters doused him with a pitcher of water. Since then, sociobiology has come a long way,...

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 pp. $18 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, $25 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...