My favorite physicist Stephen Barr makes a good point about the problem with single-issue politics: There is in conservatives a strong Romantic streak that loves the lost but righteous cause. They want to ride over the cliff with all flags flying. But that went out with the Jacobites—or should have. I hear some of my… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
Felicitous Implications
I would never describe myself as a theistic evolutionist, but John Wilkins (as always) has a thoughtful post on the implications of Darwin, God and Chance that is, as the late William F. Buckley might say, felicitous. There is a simulation program called Avida, which simulates a process of evolution by selection on “animats” or… Continue reading Felicitous Implications
Cynthia Ozick writes thoughtfully on why writers are–and should remain–invisible.
The Responsibility of Journalists. Dan Kennedy has some wise words for Andrew Sullivan on rumor-mongering.
I want to see more of the Dead Sea Scrolls. And now we can….