Science & Technology
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Fallout
We will, I imagine, be talking about the Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart for a…
Briefly Noted — 02/07
American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short by robert wuthnow princeton…
Bottum: Who to Reread in 2007
It’s weeks into 2007 already, and I don’t really know what I’m going to read this year.…
RJN: MLK Today
Diverse ways of thinking about Martin Luther King Jr. and the ways in which his day is…
RJN: A Doubtful Neophiliac
Mark C. Taylor of Williams College is among the most nimble of nimble minds perched on the…
JB: A Christmas Carol Revisited
Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years.…
Reno: Benedict XVI and Islam
Whether or not one agrees with the pope’s historical analysis of de-Hellenization, he is surely right about…
“The Incredibles,” “The Science of Sleep”
“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
The Miracle of Evolution
There are two fundamentally different battles raging in the current debates about evolution. The first pits nearly…
The Designs of Science
In July 2005 the New York Times published my short essay “Finding Design in Nature.” The reaction…
The Posthuman Future
The term “posthuman” is gaining a certain cachet. There is, for instance, Francis Fukuyama’s recent book, Our…
Keeping Rogue Science Rogue
There has been a lot of tongue-biting by pro-lifers in connection with the most recent report of…
A Noble Failure
Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case For Classical Liberalismby Richard A. Epstein.University of Chicago Press. 311 pp.…
The Soul of Steven Pinker
It is not entirely a straw man that he is attacking. For a long time now, especially…
