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In a Weekend Doubleheader, Gilder Warns of Silicon Valley and the Planetary Zoo

Reducing the stature and dignity of human beings to that of animals is the whole project of Darwinism or materialism, whatever you want to call it, in a nutshell. Read More ›
George-Gilder

Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›
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Image: Moses shatters the tablets, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinism and the “Ten Disenchantments”

There’s no doubt that the confrontation with Darwinian evolution in the 19th century stole much of the confidence of traditional faith leaders. Read More ›
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Photo: Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, by Duncan Harris from Nottingham, UK [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism

The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers. Read More ›
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Photo: David Berlinski and Mark Levin, screen shot from Fox News, “David Berlinski on the link between evolution, science and progressivism.”

With Mark Levin on Fox News, David Berlinski Talks “Evolution, Science, Progressivism”

I think it’s the first time I’ve heard a discussion of the second of law thermodynamics on cable TV. Read More ›
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Photo: Lysenko speaks, Stalin listens, via Wikicommons.

Darwinian Lysenkoism in America

As Lysenkoism enjoys a revival in Russia, it thrives here too. Read More ›
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A.N. Wilson
Published by Harper in 2017.

Check Out These Surprising Early Reviews of A.N. Wilson’s Darwin Biography!

We’re still more than a month out from the U.S. release of Wilson’s Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker. Read More ›
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Darwin, Marx, and Freud: The Genealogy of “Posthumanism”

Exactly how posthumanism cashes out in contemporary cultural terms is the subject of a detailed study with new polling data by John G. West. Read More ›

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