Donald Trump Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 16, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionScience Reporting Tagged , __edited, chimpanzees, common ancestry, dominance, Donald Trump, evolution, North Korea, prestige, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe Evolutionary Psychologist Whips Trump with Chimp Alpha Male Theory David Klinghoffer October 16, 2017 Evolution, Science Reporting 6 Unlike chemistry or physics, evolutionary biology is politically weaponized science. Read More ›
Darwin statue Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 1, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionScience Reporting Tagged , __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, David Berlinski, Douglas Axe, eugenics, evolution, Galápagos finches, history, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, On the Origin of Species, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Nagel, Tom Bethell, Tom Wolfe A.N. Wilson in The Times – Against Darwinist Absolutism David Klinghoffer September 1, 2017 Evolution, Science Reporting 6 Wilson's forthcoming biography appears to be part of a larger rethink of evolution that is bubbling away in a variety of areas. Read More ›
insensitive sandwich Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 15, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionScience Reporting Tagged , __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, New York Times, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe Evolution and the Insensitive Sandwich David Klinghoffer July 15, 2017 Bioethics, Evolution, Science Reporting 5 David Brooks of the New York Times has taken a lot razzing for a column about social class signifiers and how they serve to insulate the upper middle class. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date November 15, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionLinguisticsScience Reporting Tagged , __tedited, “consensus science”, language, Noam Chomsky, politicization, popular opinion, The Kingdom of Speech An Evolutionary View on Speech Isn’t “Settled Science” David Klinghoffer November 15, 2016 Evolution, Linguistics, Science Reporting 3 And in large part it isn't even about science. Read More ›
Type post Date October 22, 2016 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __tedited, Jerry Coyne, materialism, scientism, settled science, The Kingdom of Speech Tom Wolfe and the “Kudzu” of “Settled Science” Science & Culture October 22, 2016 Evolution 4 Writing in Commentary, Andrew Ferguson offers a fantastic review of Wolfe's takedown of Darwin. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 1, 2016 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __tedited, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, language, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, Western civilization Tom Wolfe: Human Exceptionalist Wesley J. Smith September 1, 2016 Bioethics 3 The ubiquitous attacks on human exceptionalism are one of the current age's worst decadent tendencies. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date September 1, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thinking, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human nature, meaning, purposefulness, qualia, signals, speech, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe Why Does Man Have Language? Michael Egnor September 1, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 5 Both humans and other animals use signs. Signs are things that direct attention to something else. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 31, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution Michael Egnor August 31, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind 6 I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date August 30, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , __tedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, human language, linguists, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe In The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe Tells the Story of Evolution’s Epic Tumble David Klinghoffer August 30, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology 8 Darwinian evolution explains biological trivia but stumbles when it comes to the major innovations in the long history of life. Read More ›
