John Derbyshire on why some American Catholics need to wise up: There is, to judge from my mailbag, a widespread opinion that adherence to Darwininian biology is ungodly, if not actually atheistic. To the attention of NRO readers holding that opinion, I commend Francisco Ayala. Ayala is a working biologist who is also an ordained… Continue reading

Katie Roiphe puts Maureen Dowd…um, in her place. In fact, Dowd’s most compelling example of this rarefied, lonely demographic of woman too successful for love is herself. As Dowd would have it, men simply find her intelligence, her status, her wit too daunting. (A friend called her up to complain that her Pulitzer Prize would… Continue reading

So, the Boston Red Sox bid adieu to Theo Epstein, courtesy of the town’s worst hack: As another man once said, “all this negativity that’s in this town sucks.” As any Boston sports fan knows, Shaughnessy’s column was just the latest in an interminable string of ad hominem attacks, veiled and unveiled. He did it… Continue reading

The Discovery Institute. Not just dishonest. Turns out…they’re spineless, too: Now that a fifth expert has backed out of the Dover district’s court battle, a rift is widening between defense attorneys and the primary pro-intelligent-design organization in the country.