…as long as you omit Islam from your list of the religions to which you object’ So saith David Frum,…
Category Life and Reason
I’ve tried to steer well clear of US politics – it’s not my country, it’s not my business – but…
I knew about the Antikythera mechanism, at least by name, but the sophistication of it wasn’t clear to me until…
Richard Dawkins is discussing his new memoir and his own experience of child abuse – and we finally know why…
Here is one possible future: And here is another one: Choose. It’s one or the…
I recently posted about the very unnerving fact that the Barack H Obama foundation, run by the current US President’s…
There is a certain tendency for people like Scott Atran to attribute religious violence to anything other than violent religious…
This is a sequel to my points about Nabokov and about the ludicrous parochialism of Margaret Killjoy. In the Nabokov…
I see some of my confreres are deciding to discuss the following, and I’ve also seen that both Dawkins and…
Following editorial consultation, the post is up again: In my piece on the pontiff of FtB, I wrote that his…