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Pilgrimage: On a Visit to Galápagos Islands, Paul Nelson Concedes, “Darwin Was Right!”

Following in Darwin’s footsteps, Dr. Nelson judges the islands to be, not the letdown he half-feared, but an awesome place. Read More ›
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Photo: Gertrude Himmelfarb on Booknotes, with Brian Lamb, in 1995 via YouTube (screenshot).

Flannery: A Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Pioneering Darwin Critic

Gutsy, bold, and precise in her scholarship, she saw Darwin’s theory as offering convenient “scientific” support for class-divided, untrammeled survival-of-the-fittest industrial competition. Read More ›
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Himmelfarb and Her Haters

What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›
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“Erudite,” “Profound,” “Beautifully Wrought”: Peter Robinson on Berlinski’s Human Nature

“As shocking and indignant as the best journalism. The work of a magnificent mind.” Read More ›
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Photo: David Berlinski, courtesy of Uncommon Knowledge.

Gelernter: Berlinski’s Human Nature Is “Number One” Book I’d Recommend to Yale Students

“Berlinski is a modern Hannah Arendt, but deeper, more illuminating, and wittier (i.e., smarter).” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kent Rebman via Unsplash.

Richard Weikart on Michael Ruse’s “Compromise” with Christianity

Michael Ruse aims at a surprising conclusion in his new book. Weikart isn’t buying it. Read More ›
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An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences

Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth. Read More ›
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Photo by Ann Gauger: statue of Jan Hus in the Old Town Square.

The Masks of Prague

They have taken on the masks of their former taskmasters and let their heritage stand empty, though thankfully not yet in ruins. Read More ›

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