I am now only months behind in answering emails. I have a string of excellent questions from readers that I will try to get to at weeks’ end. From reader S: “I […]
Do Most People Enter Philosophy Already Atheist?
On The Death Of New Atheism, And What Became Of it
Looking back, we can now see the definition of new atheism was progressivism. There wasn’t anything in (the then) new atheism that differed in any way from progressivism, except for its strong […]
Two Female Academics Blame Prayer For Women Not Being Men
Two academic women are sure the last barrier to the fall of the patriarchy—and installation of the matriarchy?—is prayer. They said so directly in their peer-reviewed paper “The Hidden Cost of Prayer: […]
The New Based Right
Most of you already know that based was formed by shaving the first two letters from debased, to form a new word meaning the opposite of debased, thus completing the pair of […]
Michael Anton On Identifying Our Cultural Disease’s Symptoms & An Attempt At A Diagnosis
The obvious first stage in disease identification is noticing symptoms and their extent. This, for the United States, Michael Anton does with acumen and aplomb, in his New Criterion essay “Unprecedented“. If […]
Many Atheists Still Believe In Higher Powers—Whatever Those Are
A new report on atheists is of interest. It’s “Understanding Unbelief: Atheists and agnostics around the world: Interim findings from 2019 research in Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the […]
Register Your Predictions For 2019!
As has been our tradition these many years, it’s time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year tomorrow. Rules: Number your predictions, […]
The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show that the […]
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