Christianity and the Enlightenment

by Mark Bauerlein

 Joseph Stuart joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason. Continue Reading »

20 Sep 2021

Steven Pinker's Muscular Secularism

by Richard Rex

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 »

1 Aug 2018

Disenchanted Westworld

by David Roark

Our engagement with the arts is no longer guided by emotion and imagination, but by reason. It’s why we walk away from a show like Westworld concerned with and moved by logos—“theories”—rather than ethos and pathos. Continue Reading »

20 Oct 2016

Newton and Bacon

by Will Wilson

My rabid pro-Leibniz partisanship notwithstanding, I have to give kudos to Thomas Levenson for his article on the faith of Isaac Newton over at Killing the Buddha. The article closes with a somber reminder: Hence the pathos, the danger that I think Newton himself glimpsed. There is a serious . . . . Continue Reading »

31 Aug 2009

The Pizza Theory

by Robert Royal

Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historiansby Jeffrey Burton RussellPraeger, 117 pages, $12.95 Revisionist history offers satisfactions of several kinds to a certain type of writer. Not only does the reviser feel a sense of superiority to his predecessors, the benighted drudges who . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1992