Rod Dreher: I’m just saying that it’d be smarter for the SMU professors to engage the ID people in a public forum and show the audience why the ID people are wrong. Refusing even to talk to them is not causing any fewer people to believe in ID. If ID is as dangerous as the… Continue reading

Why is it so many self-described Christians are complete chowder-skulls about science? PZ Myers has a perfect example here. And he’s right to make a big case of it. The credulity of many Christians when it comes to the hogwash put out by PR outfits like the Discovery Institute, is one of the most depressing… Continue reading

Clive James gives a great reassessment of Sartre, whom Paul Johnson once headlined as “a little ball of fur and ink.”

David Warren asks, deep down, do we even want to stop Iran?

Oh yeah. Tell me .. how do you counter the “conservatives are ignorant” argument, and how do you manage to recruit more people to the cause of lower taxes, less government and more individual responsibility when you have people running around loose calling themselves conservatives, getting elected to office as conservatives, and running websites as… Continue reading